Piezoelectric Transducers: Materials, Devices and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in the miniaturization of sensors, actuators, and smart systems are receiving substantial industrial attention, and a wide variety of transducers have been made commercially available or possess the high potential to impact emerging markets. It is now possible to substitute existing products based on bulk materials with those with a reduced size, lower cost, and higher performance in the automotive, environment, food, robotics, medicine, biotechnology and communications fields, with potential for manufacturing using advanced silicon integrated circuit technology or alternative additive techniques from the milli- to nano-scale.

In this Topical Collection focused on piezoelectric transducers, a wide range of topics are covered, including the design, fabrication, characterization, packaging, and system integration or final applications of transducers based on milli/micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems:

• Materials research oriented towards piezoelectric transducers and intelligent systems.
• Processes and fabrication technologies for piezoelectric sensors and actuators.
• Modeling, design, and simulation of piezoelectric transducer devices.
• Devices and circuits for the Internet of Things focused on piezoelectric transducer applications.
• Resonant and traveling-wave piezoelectric sensors and actuators.
• Ultrasonic transducers, energy harvesters, RF MEMS/NEMS, motors, transformers, electrooptic devices, nano-positioning systems, vibration control, chemical sensors, biomedical and healthcare transducers and other applications based on piezoelectric materials.
• Calibration, characterization, and testing techniques.
• Reliability and failure analysis.
• System integration, interface electronics, and power consumption.
• Applications and markets, control and measurement systems.

Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Sanchez-Rojas
Collection Editor

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Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Sanchez-Rojas
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Micromachines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.