Liquid Crystal-Based Hydrophone Arrays

Zourab BRODZELI; Leonardo SILVESTRI; Andrew MICHIE; Vladimir G. CHIGRINOV; Qi GUO; Eugene P. POZHIDAEV; Alexei D. KISELEV; Francois LADOUCEUR

doi:10.1007/s13320-012-0072-5

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