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Abstract:
New acoustic plate modes (APMs) with quasishear- vertical (QSV) and quasi-shear-horizontal (QSH) polarizations are found numerically in piezoelectric, nonpiezoelectric, and isotropic plates with free faces. Experimental verification of the modes is accomplished for ST,X-quartz plate, as an example. Similar to the modes with quasi-longitudinal displacement reported recently, the new counterparts exist when their velocities v(APM) are close to the velocities v(BAW) of the relevant bulk waves, the value of the dispersion slope dv(APM)/d(h/λ) is low enough (dv(APM)/d(h/λ) ~100 m/s, where h is thickness and λ is wavelength), and allowable plate thickness h/λ form a regular succession. All modes with quasi-linear polarization originate from generalized Lamb modes transformed at the aforementioned conditions.
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