Modified Piezoelectric Ceramics for Portable Ultrasonic Medical Probe Application

pharmaceutical application of nanocrystalline piezoelectric ceramics

A Novel Noncontact Ultrasonic Levitating Bearing Excited by Piezoelectric Ceramics

A novel ultrasonic levitating bearing excited by three piezoelectric transducers is presented in this work. The transducers are circumferentially equispaced in a housing, with their center lines going through the rotation center of a spindle. This noncontact bearing has the ability to self-align and carry radical and axial loads simultaneously. A finite element model of the bearing is built in ...

Piezoelectric Ceramics Characterization

This review explores piezoelectric ceramics analysis and characterization. The focus is on polycrystalline ceramics; therefore, single crystals, polymeric materials and organic/inorganic composites are outside the scope of this review. To thoroughly grasp the behavior of a piezoelectric polycrystalline ceramic, a basic understanding of the ceramic itself should not be overlooked. To this end, w...

Characterisation of Piezoelectric Ceramics

The IEEE standard on piezoelectricity recommends methods to determine the coefficients of piezoelectric ceramics and the sizes of the samples to be used. A method to determine the difference between the actual coefficients and the coefficients determined using the IEEE standard is presented. The difference or error for samples of various shapes and sizes is presented. These errors and manufactu...

Influence of sample size on ultrasonic phase velocity measurements in piezoelectric ceramics

Phase velocities of ultrasound are used for characterizing elastic properties of solids. One of the basic requirements is that the sample area should be much larger than the size of the transducer so that plane wave approximation will hold. This geometric requirement may not be possible to realize for some materials that can only be made in very small size. Using poled and unpoled lead zirconat...