Piezoelectric actuators and motors: materials, designs, and applications

X Gao, J Yang, J Wu, X Xin, Z Li, X Yuan… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric actuators are unique driving force‐generation devices, which can transfer input
electric energy into force, displacement, or movement outputs efficiently and precisely via …

Near-ideal electromechanical coupling in textured piezoelectric ceramics

Y Yan, LD Geng, H Liu, H Leng, X Li, YU Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electromechanical coupling factor, k, of piezoelectric materials determines the conversion
efficiency of mechanical to electrical energy or electrical to mechanical energy. Here, we …

Ultrahigh piezoelectric performance through synergistic compositional and microstructural engineering

Y Yan, LD Geng, LF Zhu, H Leng, X Li, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric materials enable the conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy
and vice‐versa. Ultrahigh piezoelectricity has been only observed in single crystals …

Giant piezoelectric voltage coefficient in grain-oriented modified PbTiO3 material

Y Yan, JE Zhou, D Maurya, YU Wang, S Priya - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
A rapid surge in the research on piezoelectric sensors is occurring with the arrival of the
Internet of Things. Single-phase oxide piezoelectric materials with giant piezoelectric …

High performance high-power textured Mn/Cu-doped PIN-PMN-PT ceramics

H Leng, Y Yan, B Wang, T Yang, H Liu, X Li… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric ceramics with combinatory soft and hard characteristics are highly desired for
high-power applications. However, it remains grand challenge to achieve simultaneous …

Texture-engineered ceramics—Property enhancements through crystallographic tailoring

GL Messing, S Poterala, Y Chang, T Frueh… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Texture-engineered ceramics enable access to a vast array of novel texture-property
relations leading to property values ranging between those of single crystals and isotropic …

High‐performance [001] c‐textured PNN‐PZT relaxor ferroelectric ceramics for electromechanical coupling devices

L Bian, X Qi, K Li, Y Yu, L Liu, Y Chang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
C‐Textured 0.55 Pb (Ni1/3Nb2/3) O3–0.15 PbZrO3–0.3 PbTiO3 (PNN‐PZT) ceramics are
prepared by the templated grain‐growth method using BaTiO3 (BT) platelet templates …

Grain-oriented ferroelectric ceramics with single-crystal-like piezoelectric properties and low texture temperature

Y Chang, J Wu, Z Liu, E Sun, L Liu, Q Kou… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
High-performance piezoelectrics are pivotal to various electronic applications including
multilayer actuators, sensors, and energy harvesters. Despite the presence of high Lotgering …

Design and development of high-power piezoelectric ceramics through integration of crystallographic texturing and acceptor-doping

H Leng, Y Yan, H Liu, M Fanton, RJ Meyer, S Priya - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
This study demonstrates the integrated approach based upon texturing and acceptor doping
for realizing a high-power piezoelectric ceramic with combined soft and hard properties. The …

Prospect of texture engineered ferroelectric ceramics

J Wu, S Zhang, F Li - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Texture engineering offers an approach for achieving enhanced properties in bulk ceramics
by introducing crystallographic anisotropy. Recent developments on texture engineering …