Overview
- Discusses the underlying physical principles of piezoelectric materials, important properties of ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials used in today’s transducer technology, and the principles used in transducer design
- Includes examples of a wide range of applications of such materials along with the appertaining rationales
- Provides a comprehensive, yet concise, reference to all the pertinent aspects of piezoelectric materials
- Contains contributions from a select-group of distinguished researchers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity
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Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Technology
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Piezoelectric Transducer Fabrication Methods
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications
Editors: Ahmad Safari, E. Koray Akdoğan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76540-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-76538-9Published: 19 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4564-8Published: 04 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-76540-2Published: 11 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 482
Topics: Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Optical and Electronic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Crystallography and Scattering Methods