Size effect on the electromechanical coupling factor of a thin piezoelectric film due to a nonlocal polarization law

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1281-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
J YANG ◽  
S MAO ◽  
K YAN ◽  
A SOH
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 6383
Author(s):  
Huiping Xu ◽  
Sulei Fu ◽  
Rongxuan Su ◽  
Junyao Shen ◽  
Fei Zeng ◽  
...  

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices based on multi-layer structures have been widely used in filters and sensors. The electromechanical coupling factor (K2), which reflects energy-conversion efficiency, directly determines the bandwidth of the filter and the sensitivity of sensor. In this work, a new configuration of dual-mode (quasi-Rayleigh and quasi-Sezawa) SAW devices on a ZnO/SiC layered structure exhibiting significantly enhanced K2 was studied using the finite element method (FEM), which features in the partial etching of the piezoelectric film between the adjacent interdigitated electrodes (IDTs). The influences of piezoelectric film thickness, etching ratio, top electrodes, bottom electrodes, and the metallization ratio on the K2 were systematically investigated. The optimum K2 for the quasi-Rayleigh mode and quasi-Sezawa mode can exceed 12% and 8%, respectively, which increases by nearly 12 times and 2 times that of the conventional ZnO/SiC structure. Such significantly promoted K2 is of great benefit for better comprehensive performance of SAW devices. More specifically, a quasi-Rayleigh mode with relatively low acoustic velocity (Vp) can be applied into the miniaturization of SAW devices, while a quasi-Sezawa mode exhibiting a Vp value higher than 5000 m/s is suitable for fabricating SAW devices requiring high frequency and large bandwidth. This novel structure has proposed a viable route for fabricating SAW devices with excellent overall performance.


2013 ◽  
Vol 284-287 ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Chun Huy Wang

K2CO3-doped 0.98(Na0.5K0.5)NbO3-0.02(Na0.5Bi0.5)TiO3 [abbreviated as 0.98NKN-0.02NBT] lead-free piezoelectric ceramics were prepared by the conventional mixed oxide process. The effects of K2CO3 additions on the crystalline structures and electrical properties of the 0.98NKN-0.02NBT ceramics were investigated. The specimens of 0.98NKN-0.02NBT ceramics added with K2CO3 maintain an orthorhombic phase. In the case of low K2CO3 content (≤ 0.3 wt%), the grain growth became remarkable. The increase of grain size favors improving the piezoelectric properties, which is known as grain size effect. The grain size effect compensates the decrease of the electromechanical coupling factor due to the hard doping effect. For 0.98NKN-0.02NBT ceramics by doping 0.3 wt% Na2CO3, the electromechanical coupling coefficients of the thickness mode kt and the planar mode kp reach 0.51 and 0.33, respectively, after sintering at 1100 oC for 3 h. Our results show that 0.98NKN-0.02NBT with the addition of 0.3 wt% K2CO3 is a good lead-free piezoelectric ceramic.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6438
Author(s):  
Guangtao Lu ◽  
Xin Zhu ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Zhiqiang Hao ◽  
Bohai Tan

A novel piezoceramic stack-based smart aggregate (PiSSA) with piezoceramic wafers in series or parallel connection is developed to increase the efficiency and output performance over the conventional smart aggregate with only one piezoelectric patch. Due to the improvement, PiSSA is suitable for situations where the stress waves easily attenuate. In PiSSA, the piezoelectric wafers are electrically connected in series or parallel, and three types of piezoelectric wafers with different electrode patterns are designed for easy connection. Based on the theory of piezo-elasticity, a simplified one-dimensional model is derived to study the electromechanical, transmitting and sensing performance of PiSSAs with the wafers in series and parallel connection, and the model was verified by experiments. The theoretical results reveal that the first resonance frequency of PiSSAs in series and parallel decreases as the number or thickness of the PZT wafers increases, and the first electromechanical coupling factor increases firstly and then decrease gradually as the number or thickness increases. The results also show that both the first resonance frequency and the first electromechanical coupling factor of PiSSA in series and parallel change no more than 0.87% as the Young’s modulus of the epoxy increases from 0.5 to 1.5 times 3.2 GPa, which is helpful for the fabrication of PiSSAs. In addition, the displacement output of PiSSAs in parallel is about 2.18–22.49 times that in series at 1–50 kHz, while the voltage output of PiSSAs in parallel is much less than that in parallel, which indicates that PiSSA in parallel is much more suitable for working as an actuator to excite stress waves and PiSSA in series is suitable for working as a sensor to detect the waves. All the results demonstrate that the connecting type, number and thickness of the PZT wafers should be carefully selected to increase the efficiency and output of PiSSA actuators and sensors. This study contributes to providing a method to investigate the characteristics and optimize the structural parameters of the proposed PiSSAs.


2001 ◽  
Vol 687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Brünahl ◽  
Alex M. Grishin ◽  
Sergey I. Khartsev ◽  
Carl Österberg

AbstractWe report on comprehensive characterization of piezoelectric shear mode inkjet actuators micromachined into bulk Pb(Zr0.53Ti0.47)O3 (PZT) ceramics. The paper starts with an overview of different inkjet technologies such as continuous jet and drop-on-demand systems, whereat main attention is turned on piezoelectric systems particularly Xaar-type shear mode inkjet color printheads. They are an example of complex microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and comprise a ferroelectric array of 128 active ink channels (75νm wide and 360νm deep). Detailed information about manufacturing and principles of operation are given. Several techniques to control manufacturing processes and to characterize properties of the piezoelectric material are described: dielectric spectroscopy to measure dielectric permittivity ε and loss tanσ; ferroelectric hysteresis P-E loop tracing to get remnant polarization Pr and coercive field Ec, and a novel pulsed technique to quantify functional properties of the PZT actuator such as acoustic resonant frequencies and electromechanical coupling factor. Stroboscope technique has been employed to find correlation between the degradation of ink-jet performance and heat/high voltage treatment resulting in ferroelectric fatigue.


2006 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 2412-2421
Author(s):  
Toshio Ogawa

Giant electromechanical coupling factor of k31 mode over 86% was found for (100) Pb[(Zn1/3Nb2/3)0.91Ti0.09]O3 and (110) Pb[(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.74Ti0.26]O3 single-crystal plates poled in the [100] and [110] directions, respectively. The P-E hysteresis loops in the single-crystal plates with giant k31 became asymmetric. Furthermore, the frequency response of impedance in these plates with giant k31 consisted of a single vibration in the length direction. A mechanism to realize giant k31 can be explained by the relationship between the crystal plane and poling direction. In addition, the existence of giant piezoelectric d31 constant was proven by the strain measurement as well as by the impedance measurement.


2015 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 1550049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaly Yu. Topolov ◽  
Christopher R. Bowen ◽  
Paolo Bisegna ◽  
Anatoly E. Panich

The influence of the aspect ratio and volume fraction of ferroelectric ceramic inclusions in a 0–3 matrix on the hydrostatic parameters of a three-component 1–3-type composite is studied to demonstrate the important role of the elastic properties of the two-component matrix on the composite performance. Differences in the elastic properties of the 0–3 matrix and single-crystal rods lead to a considerable dependence of the hydrostatic response of the composite on the anisotropy of the matrix elastic properties. The performance of a 1–0–3 0.92 Pb ( Zn 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3–0.08 PbTiO 3 SC/modified PbTiO 3 ceramic/polyurethane composite suggests that this composite system is of interest for hydroacoustic applications due to its high hydrostatic piezoelectric coefficients [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], squared figure of merit [Formula: see text], and electromechanical coupling factor [Formula: see text].


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