Piezoelectric Material Properties

How to measure the Piezoelectric Material Properties

Detail information is available at NPL website

• CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization)
  • EN 50324-1:2002 Piezoelectric properties of ceramic materials and components - Part 1: Definitions and Classifications
  • EN 50324-2:2002 Piezoelectric properties of ceramic materials and components. methods of measurement. Low power.
  • EN 50324-3:2002 Piezoelectric properties of ceramic materials and components - Part 3: Methods of measurement - High power
  • prEN 50ZZZ-1 (BTTF 63-2(CONV)12) Properties of multilayer actuators - Part 1: Terms and definitions
  • prEN 50ZZZ-2 (BTTF 63-2(CONV)12) Properties of multilayer actuators - Part 2: Methods of measurement
  • prEN 50PPP (BTTF 63-2(CONV)12) Properties of piezoelectric thick films
• IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission
  • IEC 60483 (1976-01) Guide to dynamic measurements of piezoelectric ceramics with high electromechanical coupling
• The IEEE-UFFC is the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  • 176-1987 IEEE Standard on Piezoelectricity [Withdrwan by IEEE]
  • 180-1986 IEEE Standard Definitions of Primary Ferroelectric Electric Terms [Withdrwan by IEEE]
  • IEEE Subcommittee on Loss in Acoustic Materials: UTMR website.
  • A Draft of the IEEE standard on Ferroelectricity: IEEE-UFFC journal, Volume: 50, Issue: 12, Year: Dec. 2003

COMSOL Material Properties Information

• Piezoelectric Materials: Crystal Orientation and Poling Direction
• Piezoelectric Materials: Understanding the standards
• Piezoelectric Materials: Applying the standards
• COMSOL Blog: Simulation Improves Range of Motion in Piezoelectric Actuators
• Parametric Study of Polyimide – Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Film Cantilivers for Transducer Applications
• COMSOL: Piezoelectric Simulations

Software

• PRAP: Piezoelectric Resonance Analysis Program. By TASI Technical Software Inc. Canada, Available at Link.
  • Other software:
    • STEP- Electromechanical Response Characterization Program
    • PIEZO1D - models the behavior of 1-dimensional electromechanical devices to predict performance using Mason's and the KLM Model.
    • XRFWIN - XRFWin controls an x-ray spectrometer to acquire x-ray intensity as a function of energy or wavelength and will determine the composition, thickness or multi-layer thickness of a specimen using qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• MTEX Toolbox:
  • The piezoelectricity Tensor
  • Calculating anisotropic piezoelectric properties from texture data using the MTEX open source package
• CRYSTAL Program
  • The CRYSTAL program can compute elastic, piezoelectric and photoelastic (elasto-optic) tensors with a fully-automated procedure

How to measure and estimate the material properties practically

• Explanation and calculation of material properties by Murata
• Explanation and calculation of material properties by Seacor Piezo Ceramics
• YouTube: Measurement of Piezoelectric properties.METCO-Workshop. #Piezo2015
• Husain Shekhani, Youtube Video: Lecture 10: Impedance Analyzer Characterization
• Nan Chen, Vishwas Bedekar, "Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Piezoelectric Bimorph Transducer for Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting", Journal of Materials Science Research, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2017 [Paper][Presentation] [Comsol Website]
• J. Fialka, "Determination of the piezoelectric charge constant d33 measured by the laser interferometer and frequency method," presented at the Annals of DAAAM for 2010 & Proceedings of the 21st International DAAAM Symposium, Vienna, Austria, EU, 2010, [Download]
• M. Stewart and M. G. Cain, "Direct piezoelectric measurement: The berlincourt method," in Characterisation of Ferroelectric Bulk Materials and Thin Films: Springer, 2014, pp. 37-64. [Download]
• M. Stewart and M. G. Cain, "Piezoelectric Resonance," in Characterisation of Ferroelectric Bulk Materials and Thin Films: Springer, 2014, pp. 15-35.[Download]
  • M. Stewart and M. G. Cain, "Piezoelectric Resonance," National Physics Laboratory (NPL), Measurement Good Practice guide no. 33, January 2001. USA [Download]
• K. W. Kwok, H. L. W. Chan, and C. L. Choy, "Evaluation of the material parameters of piezoelectric materials by various methods," IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 733-742, 1997. [Download]