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PHY 526: Piezoelectric Material Fundamentals and Applications (4 Credit)
Course Content:
Crystallography: General principles, Rochelle salt, alpha and beta quartz, stereographic projection.
Crystal Elasticity: Introduction, primary and secondary effects, thermodynamic potential, stress and strain, compressibility, adiabatic constants, transformation of components of stress and strain, general equations, specialization of certain groups.
Vibrations of crystals: normal modes, longitudinal vibrations, equivalent system with single degree of freedom, harmonics, various types of vibrations.
Principle of Piezoelectricity: Fundamental equations, piezoelectric classes, electrostriction, thermodynamic formulations of piezoelectric theory.
Measurements of piezoelectric effects: orientation and electrodes, compression, shear, torsion, measurements of piezoelectric constant, dynamic measurements and applications of piezoelectric materials such as sensors, actuators, motors, etc.
References:
- Piezoelectricity by W. G. Cady, volume one, Dover publication, 1973
- Advanced Piezoelectric Materials: Science and Technology, Kenji Uchino, A volume in Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials, 2010
- Piezoelectric Ceramics, Bernard Jaffe, Elsevier, 2012
- Principle and applications of ferroelectrics and related materials, M.E. Lines and A. M. Glass, Oxford classic text, 2009
- Introduction to Ceramics, 2nd Edition, W. D. Kingery, H. K. Bowen, D. R. Uhlmann, Wiley
- Electroceramics: Materials, Properties, Applications, by A. J. Moulson and J. M. Herbert, Wiley
Prerequisites:Condensed Matter Physics, Thermodynamics
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