Special Issue "Piezoelectric Actuators and Ultrasonic Motors: Future Perspectives"
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Actuator Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: piezoelectric actuator; ultrasonic motor; piezo-transformer; high power piezoelectrics; loss mechanism; Pb-free piezoelectrics; piezoelectric composite; multilayer actuator; relaxor piezoelectric single crystal; piezoelectric energy harvesting; piezoelectric driver
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Regarding the industrial commercialization of “Piezoelectric Actuators and Ultrasonic Motors”, we can point out at least the following million selling products in the past 15 years: Inkjet printer (piezoelectric) by Epson, Diesel injection valve (multilayer) by Siemens, Bosch, Denso (Peugeot, Toyota), Camera module for mobile phones (micro ultrasonic motor) by Samsung Electromechanics (Galaxy series), Piezoelectric energy harvesting device for Programable Air-Burst Munition by Micromechatronics Inc. (US Army). This Special Issue seeks contributions addressing:
- Novel actuator designs;
- Deeper modeling/simulation algorithms;
- Innovative piezo-actuator drive/control schemes; and
- Niche application areas of piezoelectric actuators
for the coming 10 year market expansion.
Prof. Dr. Kenji UchinoGuest Editor
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Keywords
- nobel piezoelectric actuator designs
- ultrasonic motors
- piezoelectric MEMS
- piezoelectric energy harvesting
- hybrid actuator systems based on piezoelectrics
- deeper modeling/simulation algorithms
- innovative piezo-actuator drive/control schemes
- high power piezoelectrics for actuator applications
- niche application areas of piezoelectric actuators
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Aerosol-Deposition (AD) Technique and its Applications for Novel Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Devices
Authors: Deepak R. Patil1, Venkateswarlu Annapureddy2, Jun Akedo*3, Jungho Ryu*1,4
Affiliations:
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Korea, email:[email protected]
- Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu 620015 India
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8560, Japan, email: [email protected]
- Institute of Materials Technology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea
Abstract: Thick film technology for the fabrication of high-quality piezoelectric and ferroelectric ceramic films is of increasing importance in the field of sensors, actuators, energy harvesters, and energy storage devices. The fabrication of these emerging functional devices, especially by conventional solid-state sintering method or many other thin or thick film processes is still challenging because the requirements of higher processing temperature and large residual stress. Therefore, a novel innovative processing technique is needed which meets the increased requirements of the ceramic thick film technology in terms of mass production, processing time and cost, integration capability in monolithic structures and miniaturization. A promising technology that meets all these requirements is the aerosol deposition (AD) technique. AD is a dry spray coating technique that uses the high kinetic energy of fluidized mixture of submicron size solid ceramic particles and carrier gas. AD method is based on the mechanism of shock-loading solidification in which submicron size ceramic particles with the velocity of subsonic speed typically are collided on the substrate to form thick, high density, binderless ceramic films at room temperature. This review focuses on the recent advances in the field of lead-based and lead-free piezoelectric and ferroelectric films synthesized by AD technique. This review also emphasize different aspects of AD techniques such as mechanisms and features of AD technique, materials and processes, electrical and piezoelectric properties of AD films followed by the potential of AD in different applications such as sensors, micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS), micro-actuators, and energy harvesting.
Keywords: Aerosol deposition, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, thick films, MEMS, actuator, energy harvesters.