Piezoelectric Oxide Nanomaterials for Improved Sensors
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 5544
Special Issue Editor
Interests: functional oxides nanostructures; piezoelectricity; ferroelectricity; devices; thin films; nano-engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
Piezoelectric oxide films and nanostructures have allowed tremendous development in the fabrication of different devices and applications due to their intrinsic properties such as high quality, good chemical and temperature stability, and low costs of processing, among others. Moreover, advances in micro- and nanofabrication technologies have opened the possibility of implementing a large-scale integration of miniaturized piezoelectric materials into innovative electromechanical devices with nanosized moving parts (MEMS/NEMS), with prospective applications in electronics, biology, and medicine.
The fine control of the stoichiometric ratio between functional oxide precursors allows the preparation of novel piezoelectric oxide materials with different crystalline structures and dimensionality. Several attempts to increase their quality factors and piezoelectric coefficients regarding temperature have been reported, but more investigations are necessary to realize practical applications. In spite of several materials’ deposition processing, patterning, and integration strategies, only a few piezoelectric MEMS devices have been successfully commercialized. Several challenges that currently remain are (i) the use of low-cost chemical solution methods for the deposition of uniform and high-quality piezoelectric films and nanostructures, (ii) the development of techniques for material deposition in thin film form with properties close to those of bulk materials, and (iii) the use of nontoxic, light, and abundant elements.
This Special Issue of Nanomaterials aims to cover the most recent advances in the synthetic approaches for the preparation and integration of piezoelectric and ferroelectric oxide films and nanostructures on technological substrates, relevant to integrating sensing functionalities in MEMS and other resonant systems. Novel or improved applications of the piezoelectric oxide nanomaterials in different areas are welcome.
Dr. Adrien Carretero-Genevrier
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- piezoelectricity
- sensors
- oxides
- nanostructures
- thin films
- integration
- devices
- nanofabrication
