Piezo-Active Composites: Microgeometry-Sensitivity Relations

1. Piezoelectric Medium and Piezoelectric Sensitivity

1.1. Piezoelectric Effect and Electromechanical Coupling  

1.3. Figures of Merit and Sensitivity   

1.4. Effective Electromechanical Properties in Heterogeneous Piezoelectric Materials  

1.4.2. Domain-engineered Relaxor-Ferroelectric Single Crystals 

1.4.3. Poled Ferroelectric Ceramics

1.4.4. Piezo-active Composites

1.5. Conclusion

1.6. References

2. Effective Piezoelectric Coefficients d_ij*: From Microgeometry to Anisotropy     

2.1. 2-2-type Composites

2.1.1. Ceramic / Polymer

2.1.2. Single Crystal / Polymer

2.2. 1-3-type Composites

2.2.1. Ceramic / Polymer

2.2.2. Single Crystal / Polymer

2.2.3. 1-3-0 Composites Based on Single Crystals

2.2.4. 1-0-3 Composites Based on Single Crystals

2.3.1. Ceramic / Polymer

2.3.2. 1-1-0 Ceramic / Porous Polymer Composites

2.4. 0-3-type Composites

2.5. 3-3-type Composites

2.6. Electromechanical Coupling Factors and Their Relations to d_ij*

2.7. Hydrostatic Piezoelectric Response and Its Relation to d_ij*

2.9. References

3. Microgeometry of Composites and Their Piezoelectric Coefficients g_ij*  

3.1. 2-2-type Composites

3.2. 1-3-type Composites

3.3. 1-1-type Composites

3.5. 3-3-type Composites

3.6. Piezoelectric Sensitivity, Figures of Merit and Anisotropy 

3.7. Hydrostatic Piezoelectric Sensitivity and Figures of Merit

3.8. Conclusion

3.9. References

4. Piezoelectric Coefficients e_ij* and d_ij*: Combination of Properties at Specific Microgeometry 
4.1. 2-2-type Composites

4.2. 1-3-type Composites

4.3. 0-3-type Composites

4.4. Conclusion

4.5. References

5. Piezoelectric Coefficients e_ij* and h_ij*: Other Combination of Properties

5.1. 2-2-type Composites

5.2. 1-3-type Composites

5.3. 0-3-type Composites

5.5. Conclusion

5.6. References

6. Ways to Improve Piezoelectric Sensitivity of Modern Piezo-active Composites     

References 

Acknowledgements

Appendix A. List of Abbreviations

Appendix B. About the Authors

Index