Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications

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.