Ebook: Piezoelectric Materials: Advances in Science, Technology and Applications

In the last few decades the applications of piezoelectrics to sensors have witnessed a dramatic acceleration and new devices and materials have been discovered. Some of the highlights include electrostrictive materials for positioners, relaxor-normal ferroelectric single crystals with very high electromechanical couplings for medical transducers, thin/thick PZT films for microelectromechanical systems, starting from a sophisticated chemical technology, and multilayer actuators fabricated by a cofiring technique. All will make a remarkable industrial impact in the 21st century.

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In the last few decades the applications of piezoelectrics to sensors have witnessed a dramatic acceleration and new devices and materials have been discovered. Some of the highlights include electrostrictive materials for positioners, relaxor-normal ferroelectric single crystals with very high electromechanical couplings for medical transducers, thin/thick PZT films for microelectromechanical systems, starting from a sophisticated chemical technology, and multilayer actuators fabricated by a cofiring technique. All will make a remarkable industrial impact in the 21st century.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Piezo-, Pyro-, and Ferroelectricity in Biological Materials....Pages 1-9
Piezo-, Pyro- and Ferroelectric Polymers....Pages 11-19
Ferroelectrics with Periodically Layered Domain Structure: Computer Simulation of Acoustical Properties....Pages 21-26
Structure and Properties of Novel Pb(B’1/2Nb1/2)O3-PbTiO3 Binary Systems with High Piezoelectric Coupling....Pages 27-38
Nano-Size Ferroelectric Structures....Pages 39-48
Influence of Bi and Y Additions on the Electromechanical Anisotropy of Lead Titanate Ceramics....Pages 49-57
Bi4Ti3O12-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for High Temperature Applications....Pages 59-66
Influence of Processing Parameters on the Properties of PZT Materials....Pages 67-74
Smart Structures by Integrated Piezoelectric Thin Fibers....Pages 75-86
Hydrothermal Synthesis and Processing of Undoped and Doped BaTiO3 Fine Particles....Pages 87-97
Chemical Processing of PbTiO3/Organic Hybrid and Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Thick Films....Pages 99-106
Preparation and Characterization of Thick Piezoelectric Films on Alumina Substrates....Pages 107-114
Nonlinear Piezoelectric Response in Ferroelectric Ceramics....Pages 115-122
Influence of Microstructure on Microscopic and Macroscopic Strain Behavior of Soft PZT Ceramics....Pages 123-135
The Effect of Static Compressive Stress on the High Field Dielectric Properties of Hard PZT Ceramics....Pages 137-147
Stress Dependence of the Piezoelectric, Dielectric and Elastic Properties of PZT Ceramics....Pages 149-157
Switching of Ferroelectric Nanostructures....Pages 159-168
Measurement and Simulation of the Electromechanical Behavior of Piezoelectric Stack Transducers....Pages 169-177
0.9PMN-0.1PT Ceramics: From Electromechanical Properties to Applications Via Nanostructural Characterization....Pages 179-190
Solid-State 25Mg, 45Sc and 93Nb MAS NMR Studies: Local B-Site Chemical Environments and Ordering in PB(MG1/3NB2/3)O3 (PMN) and Related Relaxor Ferroelectrics....Pages 191-202
Piezoelectric Properties of Proton-Exchanged Optical Waveguides....Pages 203-218
A Novel Tool for Experimental Analysis of Surface Phenomena....Pages 219-230
The Influence of the Material Constants and Mass-Loading on Coupling Coefficient of Monolithic Filters....Pages 231-238
Thick and Composite Piezoelectric Coatings for Biomedical and High Temperature Ultrasound....Pages 239-247
Pulsed-Laser Deposition and Characterization of Thin Films....Pages 249-260
Correlated Compositional, Morphological and Electrical Characterization of PLD Piezoelectric Thin Films....Pages 261-271
Piezoelectric Thin Films for High Frequency Electroacoustic Devices....Pages 273-284
Photoelectric and Dielectric Spectroscopy Study of PZT Thin Film Electronic Structure....Pages 285-292
The Influence of Interface on the Spontaneous Polarisation in PbTiO3 Thin Films Deposited on a Silicon Substrate....Pages 293-300
Compact Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors....Pages 301-308
Piezoelectric Actuators Using Ultrasonic Waves....Pages 309-320
Mems Application of Piezoelectric Materials....Pages 321-333
Fabrication and Modeling of Miniaturized Piezoelectric Transducers for Imaging Applications....Pages 335-346
Flextensional Composite Transducers: Designing, Fabrication and Application....Pages 347-355
A Disk Type Piezoelectric Transformer with Crescent Shape Input Electrodes....Pages 357-374
Design and Performance of a Linear Piezoelectric Wedgeworm Actuator....Pages 375-382
Piezoelectric Components for Technical Applications....Pages 383-390
Back Matter....Pages 391-399
....Pages 401-405