State of stress in piezoelectric elements with interdigitated electrodes

Journal of Electroceramics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 137-144

  Paradies, Rolf ^a   Melnykowycz, Mark M ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electrode; Experiment; Finite element analysis; Interdigitated; Piezoelectric; Stress

Indexed keywords

FINGER ELECTRODE; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERDIGITATED; INTERDIGITATED ELECTRODES; MECHANICAL LOADING; MODELING APPROACH; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; REFERENCE MODELS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SERVICE LOADS; STATE OF STRESS; UNIFORM FIELD MODELS;

ELECTRODES; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78651356347     PISSN: 13853449     EISSN: 15738663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10832-008-9547-6     Document Type: Article

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