INFLUENCE OF THE PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT
ON THE PROPAGATION OF ELASTIC WAVES
IN CUBICALLY ANISOTROPIC PIEZOELECTRICS

S. M. Bosyakova and O. N. Sklyarb 

UDC 539.3

Using bismuth germanate as an example, it has been shown 
that longitudinal and quasitransverse waves propagating 
in the crystallographic plane of a cubically anisotropic 
medium are piezoelectrically active.

a Belarusian State University,4 Skorina Ave., 
Minsk, 220050, Belarus; b Belarusian National 
Technical University, Minsk, Belarus. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 3, 
pp. 167-170, May-June, 2005. Original article submitted 
April 14, 2004.