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Multifunctional Piezoelectric Oxide Nanostructures: Fabrication Methods, Devices and Applications reviews multifunctional piezoelectric oxides, including their growth, thin films, composite films, interfacial doping effects, energy harvesting devices, and battery-free sensors. The book bridges the connection between the theoretical and experimental aspects of piezoelectric oxides, also explaining the pathways between materials-device designs-application sectors through various state-of-the-art techniques. Other sections cover the desirable properties of piezoelectric oxides, including pyroelectric, magnetoelectric, piezoelectrochemical and electrocaloric. This book is suitable for those working in the field of materials science and engineering in academia and research and development.
List of contents
Section 1: Fundamentals 1. Fundamental Piezoelectric Theoretical Concepts and Future Perspectives 2. Electromechanical Properties and Electrocaloric Effects of Oxide Materials 3. Intrinsic coupling among piezoelectric-semiconductor-optical effects of oxide materials: Fundamentals, and Devices
Section 2: Materials and Technologies 4. Advances in Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanostructures: Methods, Doping Effects and the Parent Material for Current Nanogenerators 5. Perovskite Structured Pyroelectrics: Materials, Applications and Challenges 6. Design of Multiferroic Heterostructures with Strong Magnetoelectric Coupling 7. Printed piezoelectric materials for devices and applications 8. Engineered Inorganic Piezoelectric Oxides/Polymer Interfaces for Flexible Self-Powered Electronics 9. Porous piezoelectric ceramics
Section 3: Applications 10. Composite Multiferroics for Magnetic Energy Harvesting 11. Piezoelectrochemical Devices: Fabrication and Mechanisms 12. Piezoelectric oxides for biomedical applications 13. Piezoelectric micromanipulators 14. Advances in Piezoelectric MEMS technology 15. High-Temperature Piezoelectric applications 16. Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices (Filters and Sensors) 17. Pyroelectric Infrared (IR) Sensors
