Piezoelectric Transducers: Materials Devices and Applications

Advances in miniaturization of sensors actuators and smart systems are receiving substantial industrial attention and a wide variety of transducers are commercially available or with high potential to impact emerging markets. Substituting existing products based on bulk materials in fields such as automotive environment food robotics medicine biotechnology communications and other technologies with reduced size lower cost and higher performance is now possible with potential for manufacturing using advanced silicon integrated circuits technology or alternative additive techniques from the mili- to the nano-scale. In this Special Issue which is focused on piezoelectric transducers a wide range of topics are covered including the design fabrication characterization packaging and system integration or final applications of mili/micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems based transducers.