Eckhard Quandt

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed overview of developments in transducer materials technology relating to their current and future applications in micro-scale devices is provided. And a short discussion of structural polymers that are extending the range of micro-fabrication techniques available to designers and production engineers beyond the limitations of silicon fabrication technology is presented.

TL;DR: This work reports on the discovery of an ultralow-fatigue shape memory alloy film system based on TiNiCu that allows at least 10 million transformation cycles, and finds that these films contain Ti2Cu precipitates embedded in the base alloy that serve as sentinels to ensure complete and reproducible transformation in the course of each memory cycle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show the application of five approximation functions for this purpose: linear, exponential, reciprocal exponential, Gao's, and the Doerner and Nix functions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the major challenges for introducing ferroic materials in practical cooling applications: energy efficiency, effect size, and fatigue behavior, and address the open questions require the interdisciplinary collaboration of material scientists, engineers, physicists, and mathematicians.

TL;DR: Th Thin-film magnetoelectric two-two composites were fabricated by magnetron sputtering on silicon-cantilever substrates and show high sensitivity to a.c. magnetic fields with a maximum magnetOElectric coefficient of 96 V cm(-1) Oe (-1) at mechanical resonance.