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Experimental Determination of Bending Resonances of Millimeter Size PVF2 Cantilevers

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العنوان: Experimental Determination of Bending Resonances of Millimeter Size PVF2 Cantilevers
المؤلفون: David F. Thompson, Rodney D. Roseman, Amit Shukla, Niloy Mukherjee
المصدر: Sensors, Vol 3, Iss 7, Pp 263-275 (2003)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2003.
سنة النشر: 2003
المجموعة: LCC:Chemical technology
مصطلحات موضوعية: piezoelectric, polymer, polyvinylidene fluoride, cantilever, bending, vibration, Chemical technology, TP1-1185
الوصف: The polymer piezoelectric polvinylidene fluoride has found widespread use in sensors and actuators. The bending mode of piezoelectricity offers very high sensitivities and low mechanical input impedance, but has not been studied in as much detail for sensor applications. We report the dynamic electromechanical properties of millimeter size cantilevers made from electroded films of PVF2. All devices tested had a single polymer layer. Several resonances are found below 1 kHz and the experimentally observed resonance frequency dependence on cantilever thickness and length are seen to agree well with published models which take the properties of the electrodes into account. It is found that bending resonances are also modulated by the width of the cantilever. Therefore, though the length and thickness control the resonance frequency most strongly, the actual realized value can be fine-tuned by changing cantilever width and the electrode material and its thickness. Further, all resonances display high piezoelectric coupling coefficients (keff), ranging between 0.2 - 0.35. The data presented here will be extremely useful in the design of sensors and actuators for a number of applications, since the combination of millimeter size scales and high piezoelectric sensitivities in the low audio range can be realized with this marriage of polymeric materials and cantilever geometries. Such an array of sensors can be used in cochlear implant applications, and when integrated with a resonance interrogation circuit can be used for the detection of low frequency vibrations of large structures. If appropriate mass/elasticity sensitive layers are coated on the electrodes, such a sensor can be used for the detection of a wide range of chemicals and biochemicals.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1424-8220
Relation: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/3/7/263/; https://doaj.org/toc/1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s30700263
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/ab97b4b1108c478aa47bfe99c9ac02e0
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.b97b4b1108c478aa47bfe99c9ac02e0
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:14248220
DOI:10.3390/s30700263