Multimode Design and Piezoelectric Substrate Anisotropy Use to Improve Performance of Acoustic Liquid Sensors.

Using acoustic wave modes propagation in piezoelectric plates loaded with conductive liquids, peculiarities of the mode-liquid acoustoelectric interaction are studied. It is found that (i) in contrast to bulk and surface acoustic waves propagating in piezoelectric semiconductors, the acoustoelectric attenuation of the modes is not symmetric in respect to its maximum, (ii) a large increase in attenuation may be accompanied by a small decrease in phase velocity and vice versa, (iii) the peculiarities are valid for "pure" (without beam steering) and "not pure" (with beam steering) modes, as well as for modes of different orders and polarizations, and (iv) conductivity of test liquid increases electromagnetic leakage between input and output transducers, affecting results of the measurements. To decrease the leakage, the liquid should be localized between transducers, outside the zone over them. If so, the mode sensitivity may be as large as 8.6 dB/(S/m) for amplitude and 107°/(S/m) for phase. However, because of comparable cross-sensitivity towards viscosity and dielectric permittivity, modes with selective detection of liquid conductivity are not found.

Lamb waves propagation in layered piezoelectric/piezomagnetic plates.

A dynamic solution is presented for the propagation of harmonic waves in magneto-electro-elastic plates composed of piezoelectric BaTiO3(B) and magnetostrictive CoFe2O4(F) material. The state-vector approach is employed to derive the propagator matrix which connects the field variables at the upper interface to those at the lower interface of each layer. The ordinary differential approach is employed to determine the wave propagating characteristics in the plate by imposing the traction-free boundary condition on the top and bottom surfaces of the layered plate. The dispersion curves of the piezoelectric-piezomagnetic plate are shown for different thickness ratios. The numerical results show clearly the influence of different stacking sequences as well as thickness ratio on dispersion curves and on magneto-electromechanical coupling factor. These findings could be relevant to the analysis and design of high-performance surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices constructed from piezoelectric and piezomagnetic materials.

Love waves propagation in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric layer on a piezomagnetic half-space.

A theoretical approach is taken into consideration to investigate Love wave propagation in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric layer on a piezomagnetic half-space. The magneto-electrically open and short conditions are applied to solve the problem. The phase and group velocity of the Love wave is numerically calculated for the magneto-electrically open and short cases, respectively. The variations of magneto-electromechanical coupling factor, mechanical displacements, electric and magnetic potentials along the thickness direction of the layers are obtained and discussed. The numerical results clearly show the influence of different stacking sequences on dispersion curves and on magneto-electromechanical coupling factor. This work may be relevant to analysis and design of various acoustic surface wave devices constructed from piezoelectric and piezomagnetic materials.