Applications of Piezoelectric Devices and Materials
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS)".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 2903
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent mechatronics; precision instrumentation; medical devices; nanotechnology; robotics
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Interests: MEMS; smart materials; micromechanics; machine learning-driven materials modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Materials with piezoelectric effects can convert energy between mechanical and electrical domains. This can help to create novel devices for sensing, actuation and energy-harvesting applications. Piezoelectric materials have many attractive properties such as high voltage to strain ratio and high force per unit area. Additionally, are compatible with the cryogenic vacuum environment. These properties have made piezoelectric transducers useful in many precision machines for nano-positioning, strain sensing, vibration energy collection, etc. Conversely, care must be taken in engineering applications to deal with the inherent non-linearities of piezoelectric transducers including e.g. hysteresis, creep, charge leakage, varying capacitance. Significant research efforts have been devoted to creating phenomenological or lumped parameter system models to handle undesirable behaviors. To realize the full potential of piezoelectric devices, advanced model-based or data-driven techniques can be applied throughout the process of transducer design, application-specific integration and performance optimization.
This Special Issue aims to collect novel applications of piezoelectric materials in mechatronic systems and robotics, putting an emphasis on the practical aspects of modeling, fabrication, integration, driving, associated signal processing and control methods for performance improvement.
Dr. Fangzhou Xia
Dr. Stefano Mariani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- piezoelectric materials
- transducers
- nano-positioning
- motion control
- sensing
- energy harvasting
- non-linearity modeling
- precision engineering
- mechatronic systems
- power electronics
