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In this work, we designed flextensional hydrophones of all classes, and compared their acoustic receiver performance to select the most suitable class for a low-frequency broadband hydrophone. For this purpose, basic models of the hydrophones were constructed for all classes and the effects of various structural parameters on the acoustic receiver characteristics of the hydrophones were analyzed. Based on the results, the structure of the flextensional hydrophone of each class was designed to have the maximum receiver bandwidth by an optimization technique while maintaining the receiver voltage sensitivity over a certain level. A comparison of the designed performance led to the selection of the class IV flextensional hydrophone as the most promising one with the widest receiver fractional bandwidth and highest sensitivity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24154941","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,30]],"date-time":"2024-07-30T15:25:23Z","timestamp":1722353123000},"page":"4941","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Design of Wideband Flextensional Hydrophone"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Gihyeon","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea"}]},{"given":"Donghyun","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2749-199X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongrae","family":"Roh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Butler, J.L., and Sherman, C.H. 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