The second edition of Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications includes these new developments together with a deep revision and enlargement of the topics already included in the first edition. It provides a guide for graduate students and researchers to the current state of the art of this complex and multidisciplinary area. The book fills an urgent need for a unified source of information on piezoelectric devices and their astounding variety of existing and emerging applications. Some of the chapters focus more on the basic concepts of the different disciplines involved and are presented in a didactic manner. Others go deeper into the complex aspects of specific fields of research, thus reaching the technical level of a scientific paper. Among other topics resonant sensors, especially bulk acoustic wave thickness shear mode resonators, chemical and bio-sensors, as well as broadband ultrasonic systems are treated in-depth.
Associated Editors and Contributors
1 Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity
2 Overview of Acoustic-Wave Microsensors
3 Models for Resonant Sensors
4 Models for Piezoelectric Transducers Used in Broadband
5 Interface Electronic Systems for AT-Cut QCM Sensors:A comprehensive review
6 Interface Electronic Systems for Broadband Piezoelectric
7 Viscoelastic Properties of Macromolecules
8 Fundamentals of Electrochemistry
9 Chemical Sensors
10 Biosensors:Natural Systems and Machines
11 Modified Piezoelectric Surfaces
12 Fundamentals of Piezoelectric Immunosensors
13 Combination of Quartz Crystal Microbalance with other Techniques
14 QCM Data Analysis and Interpretation
15 Sonoelectrochemistry
16 Ultrasonic Systems for Non-Destructive Testing Using Piezoelectric Transducers:Electrical Responses and Main Schemes
17 Ultrasonic Techniques for Medical Imaging and Tissue Characterization
18 Ultrasonic Hyperthermia
Appendix A:Fundamentals of Electrostatics
Appendix B:Physical Properties of Crystals
Index