• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Noise in piezoelectric sensors
  • Beteiligte: Moffett, Mark B.; Powers, James M.
  • Erschienen: Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 1990
  • Erschienen in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88 (1990) S1, Seite S160-S160
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1121/1.2028709
  • ISSN: 0001-4966; 1520-8524
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Piezoelectric sensor noise generation mechanisms will be reviewed. The sensor needs to be considered as part of a sensor-preamplifier system whose output signal-to-noise is to be maximized. When the preamplifier noise is dominant (as is often the case), an appropriate figure-of-merit for the piezoelectric sensor material is the gd product, where g and d are the appropriate piezoelectric coefficients, i.e., the signal-to-noise ratio produced by a given volume of piezoelectric sensor material is proportional to gd. On the other hand, if Johnson noise produced in the sensor resistance is dominant, the appropriate figure-of-merit is gd/tan δ, where δ is the dielectric loss angle of the piezoelectric sensor material, i.e., the sensor resistance is introduced via the tan δ factor. The figures-of-merit of a number of piezoelectric hydrophone materials will be compared.</jats:p>