Abstract

Piezoelectric ceramic cylindrical transducers are used extensively for underwater acoustic communication applications on mobile platforms (UUVs). Employing piezoelectric single crystals, used in either fully-active or active-passive segmented cylinders, in the transducer design has the potential to increase the usable bandwidth while reducing the overall size and weight of the device. In some instances, one single crystal transducer may replace several ceramic transducers and reduce the number of hardware channels. The impact on acoustic system design (power amplifier, matching transformer, and tuning network) for several piezoelectric ceramic and single crystal cylindrical transducer technologies is modeled and supported with measured transducer data.

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