Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications

by Safari, Ahmad; Akdogan, E. Koray

• ISBN13: 9780387765389
• ISBN10: 0387765387
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications combines discussion of the physical properties of piezoelectric and acoustic materials, with the fundamentals, design principles and fabrication methods, and their application in transducers. This book serves as a comprehensive reference on all aspects of piezoelectric materials, such as thermodynamics, crystallography, crystal chemistry, and piezoelectric composite fabrication techniques as they pertain to piezoelectric transducer design and applications.

Author Biography

Professor Safari is a Fellow of American Ceramic Society; Centennial Fellow of the College of Earth and Mineral Science, The Pennsylvania State University; Honorary Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin China; and president of the IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society. Dr. Safari has published over 300 refereed journal articles, and has been granted 18 U.S. patents. He chaired the 10th International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectric (August 1996, East Brunswick NJ) and 7th US-Japan meeting on Ferroelectric and Dielectric Materials (Tsukuba, Japan, November 1995). 

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity
Thermodynamics of Ferroelectricity	p. 3
Piezoelectricity and Crystal Symmetry	p. 17
Crystal Chemistry of Piezoelectric Materials	p. 39
Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Technology
Lead-Based Piezoelectric Materials	p. 59
KNN-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics	p. 81
Bismuth-based Piezoelectric Ceramics	p. 103
Electropolymers for Mechatronics and Artificial Muscles	p. 131
Low-Attenuation Acoustic Silicone Lens for Medical Ultrasonic Array Probes	p. 161
Carbon-Fiber Composite Materials for Medical Transducers	p. 179
Transducer Design and Principles
Piezoelectric Transducer Design for Medical Diagnosis and NDE	p. 191
Piezoelectric Transducer Designs for Sonar Applications	p. 217
Finite Element Analysis of Piezoelectric Transducers	p. 241
Piezoelectric Transducer Fabrication Methods
Piezoelectric Fiber Composite Fabrication	p. 261
Composition Gradient Actuators	p. 289
Robocasting of Three-Dimensional Piezoelectric Structures	p. 305
Micropositioning	p. 319
Piezoelectric Actuator Designs	p. 341
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting using Bulk Transducers	p. 373
Piezocomposite Ultrasonic Transducers for High-Frequency Wire Bonding of Semiconductor Packages	p. 389
Piezoelectric MEMS: Materials and Devices	p. 413
High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers and Arrays	p. 431
Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers	p. 453
Index	p. 479
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