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Piezoelectric sensor

About: Piezoelectric sensor is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7127 publications have been published within this topic receiving 115903 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental response of surface-bonded piezoelectric sensors to ultrasonic waves is examined, starting with harmonic excitation fields and moving to broadband and narrowband excitation field.
Abstract: A fundamental understanding of the response of piezoelectric transducer patches to ultrasonic waves is of increasing interest to the field of structural health monitoring While analytical solutions exist on the interaction of a piezoelectric actuator with the generated Lamb waves, the behavior of a piezoelectric sensor has only been examined for the limited case of a piezo-actuated Lamb wave in a pitch-catch configuration This paper focuses on the fundamental response of surface-bonded piezoelectric sensors to ultrasonic waves The response to both Rayleigh waves and Lamb waves is examined, starting with harmonic excitation fields and moving to broadband and narrowband excitation fields General oblique incidence of the wave on rectangular sensors is treated first; parallel incidence is then derived as a particular case The solutions are developed analytically for the harmonic and the narrowband excitations, and semianalytically for the broadband excitation The results obtained can be used to design u

101 citations

Patent
29 May 2008
TL;DR: A piezoelectric thin film of the present invention includes an aluminum nitride thin film that contains scandium as discussed by the authors, which can improve a piezoclectric response while keeping characteristics of elastic wave propagation speed, Q value, and frequency-temperature coefficient.
Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film of the present invention includes an aluminum nitride thin film that contains scandium. A content ratio of scandium in the aluminum nitride thin film is 0.5 atom % to 50 atom % on the assumption that a total amount of the number of scandium atoms and the number of aluminum atoms is 100 atom %. According to this arrangement, the piezoelectric thin film of the present invention can improve a piezoelectric response while keeping characteristics of elastic wave propagation speed, Q value, and frequency-temperature coefficient that the aluminum nitride thin film has.

101 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a simplified analytical self-heating model is presented, which directly relates selfheating in multilayer piezoelectric actuators to displacement-electric-field loss (displacement hysteresis).
Abstract: Multilayer piezoelectric actuators are used in fuel injectors due to their quick response, high efficiency, accuracy, low power consumption, and excellent repeatability. Experimental results for soft lead zirconate titanate (PZT) stack actuators have shown that a significant amount of heat is generated when they are driven under high frequency and/or high electric-field magnitudes, both of which occur in fuel injectors. Self-heat generation in these actuators, mainly caused by losses, can significantly affect their reliability and piezoelectric properties, and may also limit their application. Other studies have demonstrated that at large unipolar electric-field magnitudes, displacement–electric-field loss (displacement hysteresis) shows a direct relation with polarization–electric-field loss (dielectric hysteresis). In this paper, a simplified analytical self-heating model is presented. The model directly relates self-heating in multilayer piezoelectric actuators to displacement–electric-field loss (displacement hysteresis). The model developed is based on the first law of thermodynamics, and accounts for different parameters such as geometry, magnitude and frequency of applied electric field, duty cycle percentage, fuel type, and environmental properties. The model shows reasonable agreement with experimental results at low and high electric-field magnitudes.

100 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a finite-element model is developed for the active buckling control of laminated composite plates using piezoelectric materials, which can be surface bonded or embedded and can be either continuous or segmented.
Abstract: A finite-element model is developed for the active buckling control of laminated composite plates using piezoelectric materials. The finite-element model is based on the first-order shear deformation plate theory in conjunction with linear piezoelectric theory. The piezoelectric sensors and actuators can be surface bonded or embedded and can be either continuous or segmented. The dynamic buckling behavior of the laminated plate subjected to a linearly increasing uniaxial compressive load is investigated. The sensor output is used to determine the input to the actuator using a proportional control algorithm. The forces induced by the piezoelectric actuators under the applied voltage fields enhance the critical buckling load. Finite-element solutions are presented for composite plates with clamped and simply supported boundary conditions and the effectiveness of piezoelectric materials in enhancing the buckling loads is demonstrated.

99 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the most promising high temperature polycrystalline materials where their properties allow operation above that of the ubiquitous commercial material lead zirconate titanate, as well as work done to modify a promising high-temperature system, for use as a material standard.
Abstract: Piezoelectric sensors and actuators are a mature technology, commonplace amongst a plethora of industrial fields including automotive, maritime and non-destructive testing. However the environments that these devices are required to serve in are becoming more demanding, with temperatures being driven higher to increase efficiencies and reduce shut-downs. Materials to survive these temperatures have been the focus of many research groups over the last decade, but there still remains no standard for the measurement of piezoelectric materials at high temperature. This is required to effectively determine comparable Figures of Merit into which devices can be successfully designed. As part of a recent European effort to establish metrological techniques for high temperature evaluation of electro-mechanical properties, we present here a review of the most promising high temperature polycrystalline materials. Where their properties allow operation above that of the ubiquitous commercial material lead zirconate titanate, as well as work done to modify a promising high temperature system, for use as a material standard.

99 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202385
2022134
2021146
2020219
2019251
2018238