Covers the fundamental concepts of piezoelectricity, including direct and inverse effects, examples of fields in piezoelectric media, and acoustic wave propagation.
Explores functional nanomaterials for energy, sensing, and biomedical applications, focusing on polymer-based piezoelectric and triboelectric materials.
Covers the fundamentals of Scanning Probe Microscopy, including its history, principles, instruments, and applications in semiconductor research and industry.
Explores the general principles of resonant sensors, focusing on piezoelectric resonators and their applications in temperature sensing and mass measurement.
Explores the historical development and applications of piezoelectric transducers, covering crystal resonators, impedance measurements, resonance, and acoustic power.
Explains the working principles of capacitive MEMS sensors, differential capacitors, MEMS microphones, and the impact of MEMS technology on consumer products.
Explores self-sensing cantilevers in Scanning Probe Microscopy and the advantages of integrated sensor-actuator systems for high-speed data collection.
Explores transduction through actuation mechanisms, covering force-based and deformation-based methods, shape memory polymers, electrostatic and magnetic actuation principles, and examples like Texas Instruments DLP & DMD.
