DoITPoMS - TLP Library Piezoelectric Materials

Piezoelectric Materials

This teaching and learning package (TLP) provides an introduction to piezoelectric materials.

	Aims Before you start Introduction The piezoelectric dipole moment Polarisation Atomic basis of non-spontaneously polarised piezoelectrics Spontaneously polarised piezoelectrics (on the atomic scale) Spontaneously polarised piezoelectrics (on the macro scale) Depolarisation Applications of piezoelectric materials PZT Summary Questions Going further

You can also view and download the animations from this TLP at CORE-Materials

First created: August 2006. Last updated: November 2007.