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This paper investigates compressible squeeze journal bearing characteristics in relation to transducer vibrating modes. It deals with a simple configuration of a squeeze bearing, a cylindrical transducer and a rotor. The piezoelectric cylinder has two vibrating modes, extensional and flexural, which generate pressure in the thin film between the transducer and the rotor. The pressure distribution and the bearing stiffness were calculated based on the transducer vibrating modes, using the perturbation procedure in the infinite squeeze number case. The flexural vibration case is superior because the stiffness is higher and the energy consumption is less. A squeeze journal bearing model has been made. The transducer is 34.6 mm diameter and 60 mm long and the node is at the center of the longitudinal axis where the cylinder is fixed vertically and the outer rotor is suspended radially by the squeeze air film and vertically by the repulsive force of permanent magnets.