Organic piezoelectric materials: milestones and potential

Temperature Compensated Piezoelectric Materials

Piezoelectric thin-film superlattices without using piezoelectric materials

In this paper we show that experimentally realizable apparently piezoelectric thin-film superlattices can be created from nonpiezoelectric materials provided an odd-order e.g., trilayer stacking sequence is used. The size-dependent mechanism of flexoelectricity, which couples gradients of strain to polarization, allows such a possibility. We present closed-form analytical expressions for the re...

Plates made of piezoelectric materials: When are they really piezoelectric?

This paper aims at presenting in a synthetic way mathematical results that have been rigorously and recently derived by the authors. These results deal with the simplified but accurate modeling of linearly piezoelectric thin plates. It is shown how mathematical tools lead to two different situations linked to either sensors or actuators devices. Moreover we enlighten the fact that for some piez...

Stress Fields and Electric Potential in Piezoelectric Cylinders

Stress Fields and Electric Potential in Piezoelectric Cylinders