TY - JOUR
T1 - Low temperature acoustic microscopy for material characterization
AU - Yamanaka, Kazushi
AU - Nagata, Yoshihiko
AU - Koda, Toshio
AU - Karaki, Koichi
PY - 1990/12/1
Y1 - 1990/12/1
N2 - To characterize the mechanical properties of materials at low temperatures, a novel variable low-temperature scanning acoustic microscopy (VLTSAM) has been developed. The temperature of the sample can be continuously varied between 30°C and -94°C in a methanol coupler. As a demonstration of the VLTSAM, frozen onion cells were imaged at quenched and slowly cooled states. Defects in a 0.6-mm-thick epoxy layer were also observed at -30°C with much more sensitivity than at ambient temperatures. As a tool to analyze subsurface images in VLTSAM, the V(z) curve theory for SAM was extended to describe time-resolved subsurface echoes.
AB - To characterize the mechanical properties of materials at low temperatures, a novel variable low-temperature scanning acoustic microscopy (VLTSAM) has been developed. The temperature of the sample can be continuously varied between 30°C and -94°C in a methanol coupler. As a demonstration of the VLTSAM, frozen onion cells were imaged at quenched and slowly cooled states. Defects in a 0.6-mm-thick epoxy layer were also observed at -30°C with much more sensitivity than at ambient temperatures. As a tool to analyze subsurface images in VLTSAM, the V(z) curve theory for SAM was extended to describe time-resolved subsurface echoes.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0025577304
VL - 2
SP - 913
EP - 920
JO - Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings
JF - Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings
SN - 0090-5607
T2 - Proceedings of the IEEE 1990 Ultrasonics Symposium
Y2 - 4 December 1990 through 7 December 1990
ER -