Currently, there is an ever-growing interest in carbon materials with increased deformation-
strength, thermophysical parameters. Due to their unique physical and chemical properties …

Thin film piezoelectric materials offer a number of advantages in microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS), due to the large motions that can be generated, often with low hysteresis …

Due to the nature of domains, ferroics, including ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, and ferroelastic
materials, exhibit hysteresis phenomena with respect to external driving fields (magnetic …

This new edition of the bestselling Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook
brings together all aspects of the design and implementation of measurement …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is used to measure the effective piezoelectric
coefficient (d 33) of an individual (0001) surface dominated zinc oxide nanobelt lying on a …

The development of a method for integrating highly efficient energy conversion materials
onto stretchable, biocompatible rubbers could yield breakthroughs in implantable or …

This paper provides a detailed overview of developments in transducer materials technology
relating to their current and future applications in micro-scale devices. Recent advances in …

Aluminum nitride thin films have been grown by reactive magnetron sputter technique using
a pulsed power supply. The highly (002)-textured columnar films deposited on platinized …

Ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of Hf 1-x Zr x O 2 (HZO) and pure ZrO 2 films with a
layer thickness of up to 390 nm prepared by chemical solution deposition (CSD) are …

In this article, domain wall motion and the extrinsic contributions to the dielectric and
piezoelectric responses in sol–gel derived lead zirconate titanate PZT films with …