$! A summary of the work recently carried out on the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) of PZT is presented. By means of x-ray powder diffraction on ceramic samples of excellent quality, the MPB has been successfully characterized by changing temperature in a series of closely spaced compositions. As a result, an unexpected monoclinic phase has been found to exist in between the well-known tetra...

Piezoelectric diaphragms are used as synthetic jets because of their size, rapid time response, and relatively low power consumption. Among the piezoelectric diaphragms used are unimorphs and Bimorphs. In this study, a bimorph diaphragm, a thin Unimorph pre-stressed device and a Radial Field Diaphragm (RFD) are compared. A bimorph consists of two bonded PZT discs, a thin Unimorph pre-stressed d...

This paper discusses the controller design of a PZTactuated suspension dual-stage servo system in hard disk drives. The proposed control structure includes an active vibration damping control loop and a trackfollowing control loop. The vibration damping control loop, which runs at a faster rate than the trackfollowing control loop, utilizes a PZT element on a PZT-actuated suspension as a vibrat...

Abaqus/Standard simulation of Lamb waves in smart composite plates is investigated for detecting delamination type damage. Composite plates typical of aerospace structures are used and a PZT actuator is surface bonded to excite Lamb waves. Abaqus model of composite plate uses layered solid elements. Piezoelectric (PZT-5H) actuator is modeled using piezoelectric elements that have both displacem...

As an outstanding member in the oxide nanowire family, ZnO nanowire is widely studied for its optical, semiconductive, and piezoelectric properties. PbZrxTi1–xO3 (PZT), usually in the form of polycrystalline thin films, is known for its high piezoelectric coefficient and is an ideal material as actuator. In this review, we first briefly introduce the rational growth of ZnO and PZT nanowire arra...

For any soft wearable device the information about the surrounding environment and interactions is an important performance aspect. A sensor design becomes challenging when the target component has a non-uniform, agile, high resolution, and soft surface. Recent developments in wearable sensor technology have made it possible to embed piezoelectric element (PZT) based sensors, conductive fabrics...

PURPOSE To explore the effect of using extremely high permittivity (εr ∼1,000) materials on image quality and power requirements of spine imaging at 3 T. THEORY AND METHODS A linear array of high permittivity dielectric blocks made of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) was designed and characterized by electromagnetic simulations and experiments. Their effect on the transmit efficiency, receive se...

The PbZrxTi12xO3 ~PZT! disordered solid solution is widely used in piezoelectric applications due to its excellent electromechanical properties. The disorder is caused by the random arrangement of B cations. To understand the relationship between properties of constituent atoms, local structure, and compositional phase transitions, we examine the response of the individual Pb atoms, B cations, ...

We propose the structure to have only two pares of PZT thin films on the basis of [11]. This causes the structure to become simpler and easier to fabricate. And except its first vibration mode that is also the base mode, the other modes have no effect on the acceleration measurement. So it can be a better choice for the measurement of acceleration and it can have a huge potential as a micro-sen...

This study presents variable photon energy photo electron emission microscopy (PEEM) of polarity-patterned epitaxial GaN films, and ferroelectric LiNbO3 (LNO) single crystals and PbZrTiO3 (PZT) thin films. The photo electrons were excited with spontaneous emission from the tunable UV free electron laser (FEL) at Duke University. We report PEEM observation of polarity contrast and measurement of...