Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vives, Antonio Arnau (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanotechnology.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.

New understandings underlying the principles of Piezoelectric Transducers, new technological advances in its applications, and new areas of utility for these transducers made a second edition of this book inevitable. The second edition of Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications includes these new...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity
• Overview of Acoustic-Wave Microsensors
• Models for Resonant Sensors
• Models for Piezoelectric Transducers Used in Broadband Ultrasonic Applications
• Interface Electronic Systems for AT-Cut QCM Sensors: A comprehensive review
• Interface Electronic Systems for Broadband Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Applications: Analysis of Responses by means of Linear Approaches
• Viscoelastic Properties of Macromolecules
• Fundamentals of Electrochemistry
• Chemical Sensors
• Biosensors: Natural Systems and Machines
• Modified Piezoelectric Surfaces
• Fundamentals of Piezoelectric Immunosensors
• Combination of Quartz Crystal Microbalance with other Techniques
• QCM Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Sonoelectrochemistry
• Ultrasonic Systems for Non-Destructive Testing Using Piezoelectric Transducers:.Electrical Responses and Main Schemes
• Ultrasonic Techniques for Medical Imaging and Tissue Characterization
• Ultrasonic Hyperthermia.