Micromechatronics (software included)

Kenji Uchino

(2003) 504 pages

This versatile reference/text provides a comprehensive introduction to fundamentals of ferroelectrics, including available materials, device designs, drive/control techniques, and essential applications examining high-permittivity dielectrics, piezoelectric devices, pyroelectric sensors, and electrooptic devices.

Focuses on highly adaptive polycrystalline ceramics and other materials used in thin/thick film devices. It features the author's exclusive device development method:

analyzes multilayer, bimorph/moonie, and flexible composites; explains the uses of PTC (positive temperature coefficient of resistivity) effects; covers electrostriction, anharmonicity, polarization reversal, paraelectricity, and other phenomena; illuminates ferroelectric volatile and nonvolatile memory development; showcases "sensing" and "activating" functions in pyroelectric and piezoelectric materials; examines eigen lattice vibration modes in various materials; describes shear stress and strain configurations; surveys applications of ferroelectric ceramic multilayer structures in capacitors, actuators, and electrooptic components

Containing over 800 references, drawings, and photographs, this text serves as an excellent reference for materials, electrical, electronics, optical, electromechanical, solid-state, and robotics engineers, and a superb text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

This book offers a detailed and well-organized outline for a full-semester course in ferroelctric materials engineering, as well as example problems and end-of-chapter problems making the book an ideal text for students or self-study guide for professionals.

PREFACE

LIST OF SYMBOLS

SUGGESTED TEA CHINGSCHEDULE

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE

GENERAL VIEW OF FERROELECTRICS

Crystal Structure and Ferroelectricity; Origin of Spontaneous Polarization; Origin of Field Induced Strain; Electrooptic Effect; Example of Ferroelectrics; Applications of Ferroelectrics

MATHEMATICAL TREATMENT OF FERROELECTRICS

Tensor Representation of Physical Properties; Phenomenology of Ferroelectricity

MATERIAL AND DEVICE DESIGNING AND

FABRICATION PROCESSES

Material Designing; Fabrication Processes of Ceramics; Device Designing; Grain Size Effect on Ferroelectricity; Ferroelectric Domain Contributions

HIGH PERMITTIVITY DIELECTRICS

Ceramic Capacitors; Chip Capacitors; Hybrid Substrate; Relaxor Ferroelectrics

FERROELECTRIC MEMORY DEVICES

DRAM; Non-Volatile Ferroelectric Memory

PYROELECTRIC DEVICES

Pyroelectric Materials; Temperature/Infrared Light Sensors; Infrared Image Sensors

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES

Piezoelectric Materials and Properties; Pressure Sensors/Accelerometers/Gyroscopes; Piezoelectric Vibrators/Ultrasonic Transducers; Surface Acoustic Wave Devices; Piezoelectric Transformers; Piezoelectric Actuators; Ultrasonic Motors

ELECTROOPTIC DEVICES

Electrooptic Effect - Review; Transparent Electrooptic Ceramics; Bulk Electrooptic Devices; Waveguide Modulators

PTC MATERIALS

Mechanism of PTC Phenomenon; PTC Thermistors; Grain Boundary Layer Capacitors

COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Connectivity; Composite Effects; PZT

Polymer Composites; PZT Composite Dampers

FUTURE OF FERROELECTRIC DEVICES

Market Share; Reliability Issues; Development of Bestseller Devices

INDEX

Micromechatronics (software included)

Kenji Uchino

(2003) 504 pages

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