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Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid
materials (such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as
bone, DNA and various proteins)[1] in response to applied mechanical
stress. The word piezoelectricity means electricity resulting from pressure
and latent heat. It is derived from the Greek word πιέζειν; piezein, which
means to squeeze or press, and ἤλεκτρον ēlektron, which means amber, an
ancient source of electric charge.[2][3] French physicists Jacques and Pierre
Curie discovered piezoelectricity in 1880.[4]

The piezoelectric effect results from the linear electromechanical

interaction between the mechanical and electrical states in crystalline
materials with no inversion symmetry.[5] The piezoelectric effect is a
reversible process: materials exhibiting the piezoelectric effect (the
internal generation of electrical charge resulting from an applied
mechanical force) also exhibit the reverse piezoelectric effect, the internal
generation of a mechanical strain resulting from an applied electrical field.
For example, lead zirconate titanate crystals will generate measurable
piezoelectricity when their static structure is deformed by about 0.1% of
the original dimension. Conversely, those same crystals will change about
0.1% of their static dimension when an external electric field is applied to
the material. The inverse piezoelectric effect is used in the production of Piezoelectric balance presented by Pierre
Curie to Lord Kelvin, Hunterian Museum,
ultrasonic sound waves.[6]
Glasgow
Piezoelectricity is exploited in a number of useful applications, such as the
production and detection of sound, piezoelectric inkjet printing,
generation of high voltages, electronic frequency generation, microbalances, to drive an ultrasonic nozzle, and ultrafine
focusing of optical assemblies. It forms the basis for a number of scientific instrumental techniques with atomic resolution,
the scanning probe microscopies, such as STM, AFM, MTA, and SNOM. It also finds everyday uses such as acting as the
ignition source for cigarette lighters, and push-start propane barbecues, as well as being used as the time reference source in
quartz watches.

Contents
History
Discovery and early research
World War I and post-war
World War II and post-war
Mechanism
Mathematical description
Crystal classes
Materials
Naturally occurring crystals

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Bone
Other natural materials
Synthetic crystals
Synthetic ceramics
Lead-free piezoceramics
III–V and II–VI semiconductors
Polymers
Organic nanostructures
Application
High voltage and power sources
Sensors
Actuators
Frequency standard
Piezoelectric motors
Reduction of vibrations and noise
Infertility treatment
Surgery
Potential applications
See also
References
International standards
External links

History

Discovery and early research

The pyroelectric effect, by which a material generates an electric potential in response to a temperature change, was studied
by Carl Linnaeus and Franz Aepinus in the mid-18th century. Drawing on this knowledge, both René Just Haüy and Antoine
César Becquerel posited a relationship between mechanical stress and electric charge; however, experiments by both proved
inconclusive.[7]

The first demonstration of the direct piezoelectric effect was in 1890 by the brothers Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.[8] They
combined their knowledge of pyroelectricity with their understanding of the underlying crystal structures that gave rise to
pyroelectricity to predict crystal behavior, and demonstrated the effect using crystals of tourmaline, quartz, topaz, cane sugar,
and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate tetrahydrate). Quartz and Rochelle salt exhibited the most piezoelectricity.

The Curies, however, did not predict the converse piezoelectric effect. The converse effect was mathematically deduced from
fundamental thermodynamic principles by Gabriel Lippmann in 1881.[9] The Curies immediately confirmed the existence of
the converse effect,[10] and went on to obtain quantitative proof of the complete reversibility of electro-elasto-mechanical
deformations in piezoelectric crystals.

For the next few decades, piezoelectricity remained something of a laboratory curiosity. More work was done to explore and
define the crystal structures that exhibited piezoelectricity. This culminated in 1910 with the publication of Woldemar Voigt's
Lehrbuch der Kristallphysik (Textbook on Crystal Physics),[11] which described the 20 natural crystal classes capable of
piezoelectricity, and rigorously defined the piezoelectric constants using tensor analysis.

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World War I and post-war

The first practical application for piezoelectric devices was sonar, first developed
during World War I. In France in 1917, Paul Langevin and his coworkers
developed an ultrasonic submarine detector.[12] The detector consisted of a
transducer, made of thin quartz crystals carefully glued between two steel plates,
and a hydrophone to detect the returned echo. By emitting a high-frequency pulse
from the transducer, and measuring the amount of time it takes to hear an echo
from the sound waves bouncing off an object, one can calculate the distance to
that object.

The use of piezoelectricity in sonar, and the success of that project, created intense
development interest in piezoelectric devices. Over the next few decades, new A piezoelectric disk generates a
piezoelectric materials and new applications for those materials were explored and voltage when deformed (change in
shape is greatly exaggerated)
developed.

Piezoelectric devices found homes in many fields. Ceramic phonograph cartridges

simplified player design, were cheap and accurate, and made record players cheaper to maintain and easier to build. The
development of the ultrasonic transducer allowed for easy measurement of viscosity and elasticity in fluids and solids,
resulting in huge advances in materials research. Ultrasonic time-domain reflectometers (which send an ultrasonic pulse
through a material and measure reflections from discontinuities) could find flaws inside cast metal and stone objects,
improving structural safety.

World War II and post-war

During World War II, independent research groups in the United States, Russia, and Japan discovered a new class of
synthetic materials, called ferroelectrics, which exhibited piezoelectric constants many times higher than natural materials.
This led to intense research to develop barium titanate and later lead zirconate titanate materials with specific properties for
particular applications.

One significant example of the use of piezoelectric crystals was developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. Following World
War I, Frederick R. Lack, working in radio telephony in the engineering department, developed the “AT cut” crystal, a crystal
that operated through a wide range of temperatures. Lack's crystal didn't need the heavy accessories previous crystal used,
facilitating its use on aircraft. This development allowed Allied air forces to engage in coordinated mass attacks through the
use of aviation radio.

Development of piezoelectric devices and materials in the United States was kept within the companies doing the
development, mostly due to the wartime beginnings of the field, and in the interests of securing profitable patents. New
materials were the first to be developed — quartz crystals were the first commercially exploited piezoelectric material, but
scientists searched for higher-performance materials. Despite the advances in materials and the maturation of manufacturing
processes, the United States market did not grow as quickly as Japan's did. Without many new applications, the growth of the
United States' piezoelectric industry suffered.

In contrast, Japanese manufacturers shared their information, quickly overcoming technical and manufacturing challenges
and creating new markets. In Japan, a temperature stable crystal cut was developed by Issac Koga. Japanese efforts in
materials research created piezoceramic materials competitive to the United States materials but free of expensive patent
restrictions. Major Japanese piezoelectric developments included new designs of piezoceramic filters for radios and
televisions, piezo buzzers and audio transducers that can connect directly to electronic circuits, and the piezoelectric igniter,
which generates sparks for small engine ignition systems and gas-grill lighters, by compressing a ceramic disc. Ultrasonic
transducers that transmit sound waves through air had existed for quite some time but first saw major commercial use in

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early television remote controls. These transducers now are mounted on several car models as an echolocation device, helping
the driver determine the distance from the car to any objects that may be in its path.

Mechanism
The nature of the piezoelectric effect is closely related to the occurrence of electric
dipole moments in solids. The latter may either be induced for ions on crystal
lattice sites with asymmetric charge surroundings (as in BaTiO3 and PZTs) or may
directly be carried by molecular groups (as in cane sugar). The dipole density or
Piezoelectric plate used to convert
polarization (dimensionality [C·m/m3] ) may easily be calculated for crystals by
audio signal to sound waves
summing up the dipole moments per volume of the crystallographic unit cell.[13]
As every dipole is a vector, the dipole density P is a vector field. Dipoles near each
other tend to be aligned in regions called Weiss domains. The domains are usually randomly oriented, but can be aligned
using the process of poling (not the same as magnetic poling), a process by which a strong electric field is applied across the
material, usually at elevated temperatures. Not all piezoelectric materials can be poled.[14]

Of decisive importance for the piezoelectric effect is the change of polarization P when applying a mechanical stress. This
might either be caused by a reconfiguration of the dipole-inducing surrounding or by re-orientation of molecular dipole
moments under the influence of the external stress. Piezoelectricity may then manifest in a variation of the polarization
strength, its direction or both, with the details depending on: 1. the orientation of P within the crystal; 2. crystal symmetry;
and 3. the applied mechanical stress. The change in P appears as a variation of surface charge density upon the crystal faces,
i.e. as a variation of the electric field extending between the faces caused by a change in dipole density in the bulk. For
example, a 1 cm3 cube of quartz with 2 kN (500 lbf) of correctly applied force can produce a voltage of 12500 V.[15]

Piezoelectric materials also show the opposite effect, called the converse piezoelectric effect, where the application of an
electrical field creates mechanical deformation in the crystal.

Mathematical description
Linear piezoelectricity is the combined effect of

The linear electrical behavior of the material:

where D is the electric charge density displacement (electric displacement), ε is permittivity (free-
body dielectric constant), E is electric field strength, and .

Hooke's Law for linear elastic materials:

where S is strain, s is compliance under short-circuit conditions, T is stress, and

.

These may be combined into so-called coupled equations, of which the strain-charge form is:[16]

In matrix form,

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where [d] is the matrix for the direct piezoelectric effect and [d t] is the matrix for the converse piezoelectric effect. The
superscript E indicates a zero, or constant, electric field; the superscript T indicates a zero, or constant, stress field; and the
superscript t stands for transposition of a matrix.

Notice that the third order tensor maps vectors into symmetric matrices. There are no non-trivial rotation-invariant tensors
that have this property, which is why there are no isotropic piezoelectric materials.

The strain-charge for a material of the 4mm (C4v) crystal class (such as a poled piezoelectric ceramic such as tetragonal PZT
or BaTiO3) as well as the 6mm crystal class may also be written as (ANSI IEEE 176):

where the first equation represents the relationship for the converse piezoelectric effect and the latter for the direct
piezoelectric effect.[17]

Although the above equations are the most used form in literature, some comments about the notation are necessary.
Generally, D and E are vectors, that is, Cartesian tensors of rank 1; and permittivity ε is a Cartesian tensor of rank 2. Strain
and stress are, in principle, also rank-2 tensors. But conventionally, because strain and stress are all symmetric tensors, the
subscript of strain and stress can be relabeled in the following fashion: 11 → 1; 22 → 2; 33 → 3; 23 → 4; 13 → 5; 12 → 6.
(Different conventions may be used by different authors in literature. For example, some use 12 → 4; 23 → 5; 31 → 6 instead.)
That is why S and T appear to have the "vector form" of six components. Consequently, s appears to be a 6-by-6 matrix
instead of a rank-3 tensor. Such a relabeled notation is often called Voigt notation. Whether the shear strain components S4,
S5, S6 are tensor components or engineering strains is another question. In the equation above, they must be engineering
E E
strains for the 6,6 coefficient of the compliance matrix to be written as shown, i.e., 2(s11 − s12). Engineering shear strains are
double the value of the corresponding tensor shear, such as S6 = 2S12 and so on. This also means that s66 = G1 , where G12 is
12
the shear modulus.

In total, there are four piezoelectric coefficients, dij, eij, gij, and hij defined as follows:

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where the first set of four terms corresponds to the direct piezoelectric effect and the second set of four terms corresponds to
the converse piezoelectric effect.[18] For those piezoelectric crystals for which the polarization is of the crystal-field induced
type, a formalism has been worked out that allows for the calculation of piezoelectrical coefficients dij from electrostatic lattice
constants or higher-order Madelung constants.[13]

Crystal classes
Of the 32 crystal classes, 21 are non-centrosymmetric (not having a centre of
symmetry), and of these, 20 exhibit direct piezoelectricity[19] (the 21st is the cubic
class 432). Ten of these represent the polar crystal classes,[20] which show a
spontaneous polarization without mechanical stress due to a non-vanishing
electric dipole moment associated with their unit cell, and which exhibit
pyroelectricity. If the dipole moment can be reversed by applying an external
electric field, the material is said to be ferroelectric.

Polar crystal classes: 1, 2, m, mm2, 4, 4mm, 3, 3m, 6, 6mm.

Piezoelectric crystal classes: 1, 2, m, 222, mm2, 4, 4, 422, 4mm, 42m, 3, 32,
3m, 6, 6, 622, 6mm, 62m, 23, 43m.
For polar crystals, for which P ≠ 0 holds without applying a mechanical load, the
piezoelectric effect manifests itself by changing the magnitude or the direction of
Any spatially separated charge will
P or both.
result in an electric field, and
For the nonpolar but piezoelectric crystals, on the other hand, a polarization P therefore an electric potential.
Shown here is a standard dielectric
different from zero is only elicited by applying a mechanical load. For them the
in a capacitor. In a piezoelectric
stress can be imagined to transform the material from a nonpolar crystal class
device, mechanical stress, instead
(P = 0) to a polar one,[13] having P ≠ 0. of an externally applied voltage,
causes the charge separation in the
Materials individual atoms of the material.

Many materials, both natural and synthetic, exhibit piezoelectricity:

Naturally occurring crystals

Quartz
Berlinite (AlPO4), a rare phosphate mineral that is structurally identical to quartz
Sucrose (table sugar)
Rochelle salt
Topaz

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Tourmaline-group minerals
Lead titanate (PbTiO3). Although it occurs in nature as mineral macedonite,[21][22] it is synthesized for research and
applications.
The action of piezoelectricity in Topaz can probably be attributed to ordering of the (F,OH) in its lattice, which is otherwise
centrosymmetric: orthorhombic bipyramidal (mmm). Topaz has anomalous optical properties which are attributed to such
ordering.[23]

Bone
Dry bone exhibits some piezoelectric properties. Studies of Fukada et al. showed that these are not due to the apatite crystals,
which are centrosymmetric, thus non-piezoelectric, but due to collagen. Collagen exhibits the polar uniaxial orientation of
molecular dipoles in its structure and can be considered as bioelectret, a sort of dielectric material exhibiting quasipermanent
space charge and dipolar charge. Potentials are thought to occur when a number of collagen molecules are stressed in the
same way displacing significant numbers of the charge carriers from the inside to the surface of the specimen. Piezoelectricity
of single individual collagen fibrils was measured using piezoresponse force microscopy, and it was shown that collagen fibrils
behave predominantly as shear piezoelectric materials.[24]

The piezoelectric effect is generally thought to act as a biological force sensor.[25][26] This effect was exploited by research
conducted at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which established that sustained application of
electrical potential could stimulate both resorption and growth (depending on the polarity) of bone in-vivo.[27] Further studies
in the 1990s provided the mathematical equation to confirm long bone wave propagation as to that of hexagonal (Class 6)
crystals.[28]

Other natural materials

Biological materials exhibiting piezoelectric properties include:

Tendon
Silk
Wood due to piezoelectric texture
Enamel
Dentin
DNA
Viral proteins, including those from bacteriophage. One study has found that thin films of M13 bacteriophage can be used
to construct a piezoelectric generator sufficient to operate a liquid crystal display.[29]

Synthetic crystals
Langasite (La3Ga5SiO14), a quartz-analogous crystal
Gallium orthophosphate (GaPO4), a quartz-analogous crystal
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3)
Lithium tantalate (LiTaO3)

Synthetic ceramics
Ceramics with randomly oriented grains must be ferroelectric to exhibit piezoelectricity.[30] The macroscopic piezoelectricity
is possible in textured polycrystalline non-ferroelectric piezoelectric materials, such as AlN and ZnO. The family of ceramics
with perovskite, tungsten-bronze and related structures exhibits piezoelectricity:

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Barium titanate (BaTiO3)—Barium titanate was the first piezoelectric ceramic

discovered.
Lead zirconate titanate (Pb[ZrxTi1−x]O3 with 0 ≤ x ≤ 1)—more commonly
known as PZT, lead zirconate titanate is the most common piezoelectric
ceramic in use today.
Potassium niobate (KNbO3)
Sodium tungstate (Na2WO3)
Ba2NaNb5O5
Tetragonal unit cell of lead titanate
Pb2KNb5O15
Zinc oxide (ZnO)–Wurtzite structure. While single crystals of ZnO are
piezoelectric and pyroelectric, polycrystalline (ceramic) ZnO with randomly oriented grains exhibits neither piezoelectric
nor pyroelectric effect. Not being ferroelectric, polycrystalline ZnO cannot be poled like barium titanate or PZT. Ceramics
and polycrystalline thin films of ZnO may exhibit macroscopic piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity only if they are textured
(grains are preferentially oriented), such that the piezoelectric and pyroelectric responses of all individual grains do not
cancel. This is readily accomplished in polycrystalline thin films.[17]

Lead-free piezoceramics
More recently, there is growing concern regarding the toxicity in lead-containing devices driven by the result of restriction of
hazardous substances directive regulations. To address this concern, there has been a resurgence in the compositional
development of lead-free piezoelectric materials.

Sodium potassium niobate ((K,Na)NbO3). This material is also known as NKN. In 2004, a group of Japanese researchers
led by Yasuyoshi Saito discovered a sodium potassium niobate composition with properties close to those of PZT,
including a high TC.[31] Certain compositions of this material have been shown to retain a high mechanical quality factor
(Qm ≈ 900) with increasing vibration levels, whereas the mechanical quality factor of hard PZT degrades in such
conditions. This fact makes NKN a promising replacement for high power resonance applications, such as piezoelectric
transformers.[32]
Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) is also a promising candidate for the replacement of lead-based ceramics.
Sodium niobate NaNbO3
Barium titanate (BaTiO3)—Barium titanate was the first piezoelectric ceramic discovered.
Bismuth titanate Bi4Ti3O12
Sodium bismuth titanate NaBi(TiO3)2
So far, neither the environmental effect nor the stability of supplying these substances have been measured.

III–V and II–VI semiconductors

A piezoelectric potential can be created in any bulk or nanostructured semiconductor crystal having non central symmetry,
such as the Group III–V and II–VI materials, due to polarization of ions under applied stress and strain. This property is
common to both the zincblende and wurtzite crystal structures. To first order, there is only one independent piezoelectric
coefficient in zincblende, called e14, coupled to shear components of the strain. In wurtzite, there are instead three
independent piezoelectric coefficients: e31, e33 and e15. The semiconductors where the strongest piezoelectricity is observed
are those commonly found in the wurtzite structure, i.e. GaN, InN, AlN and ZnO. ZnO is the most used material in the recent
field of piezotronics.

Since 2006, there have also been a number of reports of strong non linear piezoelectric effects in polar semiconductors.[33]
Such effects are generally recognized to be at least important if not of the same order of magnitude as the first order
approximation.

Polymers
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don't. Over the last few decades, non-toxic, piezoelectric polymers have been studied and applied due to their flexibility and
smaller acoustical impedance.[34] Other properties that make these materials significant include their biocompatibility,
biodegradability, low cost, and low power consumption compared to other piezo-materials (ceramics, etc.).[35] Piezoelectric
polymers and non-toxic polymer composites can be used given their different physical properties.

Piezoelectric polymers can be classified by bulk polymers, voided charged polymers, and polymer composites. A piezo-
response observed by bulk polymers is mostly due to its molecular structure. There are two types of bulk polymers:
amorphous and semi-crystalline. Examples of semi-crystalline polymers are Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) and its
copolymers, Polyamides, and Paralyne-C. Non-crystalline polymers, such as Polyimide and Polyvinylidene Chloride (PVDC),
fall under amorphous bulk polymers. Voided charged polymers exhibit the piezoelectric effect due to charge induced by poling
of a porous polymeric film. Under an electric field, charges form on the surface of the voids forming dipoles. Electric
responses can be caused by any deformation of these voids. The piezoelectric effect can also be observed in polymer
composites by integrating piezoelectric ceramic particles into a polymer film. A polymer doesn’t have to be piezo-active to be
an effective material for a polymer composite.[35] In this case, a material could be made up of an inert matrix with a separate
piezo-active component.

PVDF exhibits piezoelectricity several times greater than quartz. The piezo-response observed from PVDF is about 20-30
pC/N. That is an order of 5-50 times less than that of piezoelectric ceramic lead zirconate titanate (PZT).[34][35] The thermal
stability of the piezoelectric effect of polymers in the PVDF family (ie. vinylidene fluoride co-poly trifluoroethylene) goes up to
125°C. Some applications of PVDF are pressure sensors, hydrophones, and shock wave sensors.[34]

Due to their flexibility, piezoelectric composites have been proposed as energy harvesters and nanogenerators. In 2018, it was
reported by Zhu et al. that a piezoelectric response of about 17 pC/N could be obtained from PDMS/PZT nanocomposite at
60% porosity.[36] Another PDMS nanocomposite was reported in 2017, in which BaTiO3 was integrated into PDMS to make a
stretchable, transparent nanogenerator for self-powered physiological monitoring.[37] In 2016, polar molecules were
introduced into a polyurethane foam in which high responses of up to 244 pC/N were reported.[38]

In 2000, it was shown that an actuator can be made of paper. The wood fibers, called cellulose fibers, are aligned so that there
is a dipolar orientation. This allows the material to become piezoelectric. To enhance the effect, the material can be poled for
further alignment.[35] D33 responses for cellular polypropylene are around 200 pC/N. Some applications of cellular
polypropylene are musical key pads, microphones, and ultrasound-based echolocation systems.[34]

Organic nanostructures
A strong shear piezoelectric activity was observed in self-assembled diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes (PNTs), indicating
electric polarization directed along the tube axis. Comparison with LiNbO3 and lateral signal calibration yields sufficiently
high effective piezoelectric coefficient values of at least 60 pm/V (shear response for tubes of ≈200 nm in diameter). PNTs
demonstrate linear deformation without irreversible degradation in a broad range of driving voltages.[39]

Application
Currently, industrial and manufacturing is the largest application market for piezoelectric devices, followed by the automotive
industry. Strong demand also comes from medical instruments as well as information and telecommunications. The global
demand for piezoelectric devices was valued at approximately US$14.8 billion in 2010. The largest material group for
piezoelectric devices is piezoceramics, and piezopolymer is experiencing the fastest growth due to its low weight and small
size.[40]

Piezoelectric crystals are now used in numerous ways:

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High voltage and power sources

Direct piezoelectricity of some substances, like quartz, can generate potential differences of thousands of volts.

The best-known application is the electric cigarette lighter: pressing the button causes a spring-loaded hammer to hit a
piezoelectric crystal, producing a sufficiently high-voltage electric current that flows across a small spark gap, thus
heating and igniting the gas. The portable sparkers used to ignite gas stoves work the same way, and many types of gas
burners now have built-in piezo-based ignition systems.
A similar idea is being researched by DARPA in the United States in a project called Energy Harvesting, which includes
an attempt to power battlefield equipment by piezoelectric generators embedded in soldiers' boots. However, these
energy harvesting sources by association affect the body. DARPA's effort to harness 1–2 watts from continuous shoe
impact while walking were abandoned due to the impracticality and the discomfort from the additional energy expended
by a person wearing the shoes. Other energy harvesting ideas include harvesting the energy from human movements in
train stations or other public places[41][42] and converting a dance floor to generate electricity.[43] Vibrations from industrial
machinery can also be harvested by piezoelectric materials to charge batteries for backup supplies or to power low-
power microprocessors and wireless radios.[44]
A piezoelectric transformer is a type of AC voltage multiplier. Unlike a conventional transformer, which uses magnetic
coupling between input and output, the piezoelectric transformer uses acoustic coupling. An input voltage is applied
across a short length of a bar of piezoceramic material such as PZT, creating an alternating stress in the bar by the
inverse piezoelectric effect and causing the whole bar to vibrate. The vibration frequency is chosen to be the resonant
frequency of the block, typically in the 100 kilohertz to 1 megahertz range. A higher output voltage is then generated
across another section of the bar by the piezoelectric effect. Step-up ratios of more than 1,000:1 have been
demonstrated. An extra feature of this transformer is that, by operating it above its resonant frequency, it can be made to
appear as an inductive load, which is useful in circuits that require a controlled soft start.[45] These devices can be used
in DC–AC inverters to drive cold cathode fluorescent lamps. Piezo transformers are some of the most compact high
voltage sources.

Sensors
The principle of operation of a piezoelectric sensor is that a physical dimension,
transformed into a force, acts on two opposing faces of the sensing element.
Depending on the design of a sensor, different "modes" to load the piezoelectric
element can be used: longitudinal, transversal and shear.

Detection of pressure variations in the form of sound is the most common sensor
application, e.g. piezoelectric microphones (sound waves bend the piezoelectric
material, creating a changing voltage) and piezoelectric pickups for acoustic-
electric guitars. A piezo sensor attached to the body of an instrument is known as a
contact microphone. Piezoelectric disk used as a guitar
pickup
Piezoelectric sensors especially are used with high frequency sound in ultrasonic
transducers for medical imaging and also industrial nondestructive testing (NDT).

For many sensing techniques, the sensor can act as both a sensor and an
actuator – often the term transducer is preferred when the device acts in this dual
capacity, but most piezo devices have this property of reversibility whether it is
used or not. Ultrasonic transducers, for example, can inject ultrasound waves into
the body, receive the returned wave, and convert it to an electrical signal (a
voltage). Most medical ultrasound transducers are piezoelectric.

In addition to those mentioned above, various sensor applications include: Many rocket-propelled grenades
used a piezoelectric fuse. For
Piezoelectric elements are also used in the detection and generation of sonar example: RPG-7.[46]
waves.
Piezoelectric materials are used in single-axis and dual-axis tilt sensing.[47]
Power monitoring in high power applications (e.g. medical treatment, sonochemistry and industrial processing).

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Piezoelectric microbalances are used as very sensitive chemical and biological sensors.
Piezos are sometimes used in strain gauges.
A piezoelectric transducer was used in the penetrometer instrument on the Huygens Probe.
Piezoelectric transducers are used in electronic drum pads to detect the impact of the drummer's sticks, and to detect
muscle movements in medical acceleromyography.
Automotive engine management systems use piezoelectric transducers to detect Engine knock (Knock Sensor, KS), also
known as detonation, at certain hertz frequencies. A piezoelectric transducer is also used in fuel injection systems to
measure manifold absolute pressure (MAP sensor) to determine engine load, and ultimately the fuel injectors
milliseconds of on time.
Ultrasonic piezo sensors are used in the detection of acoustic emissions in acoustic emission testing.

Actuators
As very high electric fields correspond to only tiny changes in the width of the
crystal, this width can be changed with better-than-µm precision, making piezo
crystals the most important tool for positioning objects with extreme accuracy —
thus their use in actuators. Multilayer ceramics, using layers thinner than 100 µm,
allow reaching high electric fields with voltage lower than 150 V. These ceramics
are used within two kinds of actuators: direct piezo actuators and Amplified
piezoelectric actuators. While direct actuator's stroke is generally lower than
100 µm, amplified piezo actuators can reach millimeter strokes.
Metal disk with piezoelectric disk
Loudspeakers: Voltage is converted to mechanical movement of a metallic
diaphragm. attached, used in a buzzer.
Piezoelectric motors: Piezoelectric elements apply a directional force to an
axle, causing it to rotate. Due to the extremely small distances involved, the
piezo motor is viewed as a high-precision replacement for the stepper motor.
Piezoelectric elements can be used in laser mirror alignment, where their ability to move a large mass (the mirror mount)
over microscopic distances is exploited to electronically align some laser mirrors. By precisely controlling the distance
between mirrors, the laser electronics can accurately maintain optical conditions inside the laser cavity to optimize the
beam output.
A related application is the acousto-optic modulator, a device that scatters light off soundwaves in a crystal, generated by
piezoelectric elements. This is useful for fine-tuning a laser's frequency.
Atomic force microscopes and scanning tunneling microscopes employ converse piezoelectricity to keep the sensing
needle close to the specimen.[48]
Inkjet printers: On many inkjet printers, piezoelectric crystals are used to drive the ejection of ink from the inkjet print
head towards the paper.
Diesel engines: High-performance common rail diesel engines use piezoelectric fuel injectors, first developed by Robert
Bosch GmbH, instead of the more common solenoid valve devices.
Active vibration control using amplified actuators.
X-ray shutters.
XY stages for micro scanning used in infrared cameras.
Moving the patient precisely inside active CT and MRI scanners where the strong radiation or magnetism precludes
electric motors.[49]
Crystal earpieces are sometimes used in old or low power radios.
High-intensity focused ultrasound for localized heating or creating a localized cavitation can be achieved, for example, in
patient's body or in an industrial chemical process.
Refreshable braille display A small crystal is expanded, by applying a current, that moves a lever to raise individual
braille cells.

Frequency standard
The piezoelectrical properties of quartz are useful as a standard of frequency.

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piezoelectricity to generate a regularly timed series of electrical pulses that is used to mark time. The quartz crystal (like
any elastic material) has a precisely defined natural frequency (caused by its shape and size) at which it prefers to
oscillate, and this is used to stabilize the frequency of a periodic voltage applied to the crystal.
The same principle is used in some radio transmitters and receivers, and in computers where it creates a clock pulse.
Both of these usually use a frequency multiplier to reach gigahertz ranges.

Piezoelectric motors
Types of piezoelectric motor include:

The traveling-wave motor used for auto-focus in reflex cameras

Inchworm motors for linear motion
Rectangular four-quadrant motors with high power density (2.5 W/cm3) and
speed ranging from 10 nm/s to 800 mm/s.
Stepping piezo motor, using stick-slip effect.
Aside from the stepping stick-slip motor, all these motors work on the same
principle. Driven by dual orthogonal vibration modes with a phase difference of
90°, the contact point between two surfaces vibrates in an elliptical path,
producing a frictional force between the surfaces. Usually, one surface is fixed,
causing the other to move. In most piezoelectric motors, the piezoelectric crystal is
excited by a sine wave signal at the resonant frequency of the motor. Using the
A slip-stick actuator.
resonance effect, a much lower voltage can be used to produce a high vibration
amplitude.

A stick-slip motor works using the inertia of a mass and the friction of a clamp. Such motors can be very small. Some are used
for camera sensor displacement, thus allowing an anti-shake function.

Reduction of vibrations and noise

Different teams of researchers have been investigating ways to reduce vibrations in materials by attaching piezo elements to
the material. When the material is bent by a vibration in one direction, the vibration-reduction system responds to the bend
and sends electric power to the piezo element to bend in the other direction. Future applications of this technology are
expected in cars and houses to reduce noise. Further applications to flexible structures, such as shells and plates, have also
been studied for nearly three decades.

In a demonstration at the Material Vision Fair in Frankfurt in November 2005, a team from TU Darmstadt in Germany
showed several panels that were hit with a rubber mallet, and the panel with the piezo element immediately stopped
swinging.

Piezoelectric ceramic fiber technology is being used as an electronic damping system on some HEAD tennis rackets.[50]

Infertility treatment
In people with previous total fertilization failure, piezoelectric activation of oocytes together with intracytoplasmic sperm
injection (ICSI) seems to improve fertilization outcomes.[51]

Surgery
A recent application of piezoelectric ultrasound sources is piezoelectric surgery, also known as piezosurgery.[4] Piezosurgery is
a minimally invasive technique that aims to cut a target tissue with little damage to neighboring tissues. For example, Hoigne

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et al.[52] reported its use in hand surgery for the cutting of bone, using frequencies in the range 25–29 kHz, causing
microvibrations of 60–210 μm. It has the ability to cut mineralized tissue without cutting neurovascular tissue and other soft
tissue, thereby maintaining a blood-free operating area, better visibility and greater precision.[53]

Potential applications
In 2015, Cambridge University researchers working in conjunction with researchers from the National Physical Laboratory
and Cambridge-based dielectric antenna company Antenova Ltd, using thin films of piezoelectric materials found that at a
certain frequency, these materials become not only efficient resonators, but efficient radiators as well, meaning that they can
potentially be used as antennas. The researchers found that by subjecting the piezoelectric thin films to an asymmetric
excitation, the symmetry of the system is similarly broken, resulting in a corresponding symmetry breaking of the electric
field, and the generation of electromagnetic radiation.[54][55]

In recent years, several attempts at the macro-scale application of the piezoelectric technology have emerged[56][57] to harvest
kinetic energy from walking pedestrians. The piezoelectric floors have been trialed since the beginning of 2007 in two
Japanese train stations, Tokyo and Shibuya stations. The electricity generated from the foot traffic is used to provide all the
electricity needed to run the automatic ticket gates and electronic display systems.[58] In London, a famous nightclub
exploited the piezoelectric technology in its dance floor. Parts of the lighting and sound systems in the club can be powered by
the energy harvesting tiles.[59] However, the piezoelectric tile deployed on the ground usually harvests energy from low
frequency strikes provided by the foot traffic. This working condition may eventually lead to low power generation
efficiency.[60]

In this case, locating high traffic areas is critical for optimization of the energy harvesting efficiency, as well as the orientation
of the tile pavement significantly affects the total amount of the harvested energy. A density flow evaluation is recommended
to qualitatively evaluate the piezoelectric power harvesting potential of the considered area based on the number of
pedestrian crossings per unit time.[60] In X. Li's study, the potential application of a commercial piezoelectric energy harvester
in a central hub building at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia is examined and discussed. Optimization of the
piezoelectric tile deployment is presented according to the frequency of pedestrian mobility and a model is developed where
3.1% of the total floor area with the highest pedestrian mobility is paved with piezoelectric tiles. The modelling results indicate
that the total annual energy harvesting potential for the proposed optimized tile pavement model is estimated at
1.1 MW h/year, which would be sufficient to meet close to 0.5% of the annual energy needs of the building.[60] In Israel, there
is a company which has installed piezoelectric materials under a busy highway. The energy generated is adequate and powers
street lights, billboards and signs.

Tire company Goodyear has plans to develop an electricity generating tire which has piezoelectric material lined inside it. As
the tire moves, it deforms and thus electricity is generated.[61]

Photovoltaics
The efficiency of a hybrid photovoltaic cell that contains piezoelectric materials can be increased simply by placing it near a
source of ambient noise or vibration. The effect was demonstrated with organic cells using zinc oxide nanotubes. The
electricity generated by the piezoelectric effect itself is a negligible percentage of the overall output. Sound levels as low as 75
decibels improved efficiency by up to 50%. Efficiency peaked at 10 kHz, the resonant frequency of the nanotubes. The
electrical field set up by the vibrating nanotubes interacts with electrons migrating from the organic polymer layer. This
process decreases the likelihood of recombination, in which electrons are energized but settle back into a hole instead of
migrating to the electron-accepting ZnO layer.[62][63]

See also

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Charge amplifier
Electronic component
Electret
Electrostriction
Energy harvesting, methods of converting other forms of energy to electricity.
Ferroelectricity
Flexoelectricity
Magnetostriction
Photoelectric effect
Piezoluminescence
Piezomagnetism
Piezosurgical
Piezoresistive effect
Sonomicrometry
Surface acoustic wave
Triboluminescence
Piezotronics
Piezoelectric speaker

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International standards
EN 50324 (2002) Piezoelectric properties of ceramic materials and components (3 parts)
ANSI-IEEE 176 (1987) Standard on Piezoelectricity
IEEE 177 (1976) Standard Definitions & Methods of Measurement for Piezoelectric Vibrators
IEC 444 (1973) Basic method for the measurement of resonance freq & equiv series resistance of quartz crystal units by
zero-phase technique in a pi-network
IEC 302 (1969) Standard Definitions & Methods of Measurement for Piezoelectric Vibrators Operating over the Freq
Range up to 30 MHz

External links
Gautschi, Gustav H. (2002). Piezoelectric Sensorics. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-42259-4.
Piezoelectric cellular polymer films: Fabrication, properties and applications (http://www.aimspress.com/fileOther
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Research on new Piezoelectric materials (http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_account
/research_new_piezoelectric_materials)
Piezo Equations (http://www.techonline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192201162&queryText=22)
Piezo in Medical Design (http://medicaldesign.com/motors-motion-control/precision-via-piezo-20100501/)
Video demonstration of Piezoelectricity (http://vega.org.uk/video/programme/195)
DoITPoMS Teaching and Learning Package – Piezoelectric Materials (http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/piezoelectrics
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PiezoMat.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20140221180044/http://piezomat.org/) – Online database for piezoelectric
materials, their properties, and applications
Piezo Motor Types
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