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Excitation of longitudinal and transverse ultrasound by electromagnetic waves incident on the metal surface is the subject of the present work. This is a simple and convenient experimental technique. The reason for this approach is to overcome the primary difficulty during precise measurements of the frequency or temperature dependences of the velocity and attenuation of ultrasound in pure metals by the conventional methods where it is difficult to achieve reliable acoustic contact between the transducer and the sample. The reasons are (i) the creation of this contact unavoidably results in a deformation of a surface layer of the metal affecting the experimental results, (ii) as the temperature is varied over a broad range, the properties of the acoustic contact itself change resulting in non-reproducible experimental results.
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Vasil’ev, A.N., Gaidukov, Y.P. Electromagnetic generation of ultrasound in metals at low temperatures. Pramana - J. Phys. 28, 483–488 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026685
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