These are downloadable documents related to the
construction or tuning of ultrasonic transducers such as
those used in TAPS. Click on the name to download the
file.
A more comprehensive discussion of fabricating TAPS
transducers, tuning them, and calibrating them.
A note I wrote for my lab tech on constructing a
single-frequency tuning network for a TAPS transducer
How to calibrate a transducer for use as a standard
My spreadsheet for surface reciprocity calibrations
A circuit useful in reciprocity calibrations
A report on the effect of different backing thicknesses
on transmit efficiency