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Advantages and Challenges of Relaxor-PbTiO3 Ferroelectric Crystals for Electroacoustic Transducers- A Review.

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In this review, the performance merits of relaxor-PT crystals in various electroacoustic devices are presented from a piezoelectric material viewpoint and the impacts and challenges are summarized to guide on-going and future research in the development of relaxors for the next generation electroac acoustic transducers.
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This article is published in Progress in Materials Science.The article was published on 2015-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 556 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: PMUT & Ultrasonic sensor.

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Ultrahigh piezoelectricity in ferroelectric ceramics by design

TL;DR: This research provides a new paradigm for designing material properties through engineering local structural heterogeneity, expected to benefit a wide range of functional materials.
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High-Performance Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Their Applications

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of piezoelectric energy-harvesting techniques developed in the last decade is presented, identifying four promising applications: shoes, pacemakers, tire pressure monitoring systems, and bridge and building monitoring.
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Progress in high-strain perovskite piezoelectric ceramics

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the latest developments of the various types of perovskite piezoelectric ceramic systems is presented in this article, with special attention given to three promising families of lead-free perovsite ferroelectrics: the barium titanate, alkaline niobate and bismuth pervskites.
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The origin of ultrahigh piezoelectricity in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solution crystals

TL;DR: A mesoscale mechanism is proposed to reveal the origin of the high piezoelectricity in relaxor ferroelectrics, where the polar nanoregions aligned in a ferroelectric matrix can facilitate polarization rotation.
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Physical properties of crystals

John F. Nye
TL;DR: In this paper, the physical properties of crystals systematically in tensor notation are presented, presenting tensor properties in terms of their common mathematical basis and the thermodynamic relations between them.
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Principles and Applications of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials

TL;DR: In this paper, the theory of ferroelectricity in terms of soft modes and lattice dynamics is developed and modern techniques of measurement, including X-ray, optic, and neutron scattering, infra-red absorption, and magnetic resonance.
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Ultrahigh strain and piezoelectric behavior in relaxor based ferroelectric single crystals

TL;DR: In this article, the piezoelectric properties of relaxor based ferroelectric single crystals, such as Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 and PbTiO3, were investigated for electromechanical actuators.
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Ferroelectric ceramics : History and technology

TL;DR: Ferroelectric ceramics have been the heart and soul of several multibillion dollar industries, ranging from high-dielectric-constant capacitors to later developments in piezoelectric transducers, positive temperature coefficient devices, and electrooptic light valves as mentioned in this paper.
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