Safari / Akdogan Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-387-76540-2
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 482 Seiten, eBook

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.

The chapters in this book cover a wide range of topics, which are separated into four sections:

Section I. Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity

Section II. Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Technology

Section III. Transducer Design and Principles

Section IV. Piezoelectric Transducer Fabrication Methods

Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications is written by a diverse group of renowned experts from around the world, and is appropriate for scientists and engineers in a variety of disciplines.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Safari, Ahmad

Akdogan, E. Koray

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity.- Thermodynamics of Ferroelectricity.- Piezoelectricity and Crystal Symmetry.- Crystal Chemistry of Piezoelectric Materials.- Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Technology.- Lead-Based Piezoelectric Materials.- KNN-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics.- Bismuth-based Piezoelectric Ceramics.- Electropolymers for Mechatronics and Artificial Muscles.- Low-Attenuation Acoustic Silicone Lens for Medical Ultrasonic Array Probes.- Carbon-Fiber Composite Materials for Medical Transducers.- Transducer Design and Principles.- Piezoelectric Transducer Design for Medical Diagnosis and NDE.- Piezoelectric Transducer Designs for Sonar Applications.- Finite Element Analysis of Piezoelectric Transducers.- Piezoelectric Transducer Fabrication Methods.- Piezoelectric Fiber Composite Fabrication.- Composition Gradient Actuators.- Robocasting of Three-Dimensional Piezoelectric Structures.- Micropositioning.- Piezoelectric Actuator Designs.- Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting using Bulk Transducers.- Piezocomposite Ultrasonic Transducers for High-Frequency Wire Bonding of Semiconductor Packages.- Piezoelectric MEMS: Materials and Devices.- High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers and Arrays.- Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers.

Über Autor(innen)

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).