Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications

Professor Safari is a Fellow of American Ceramic Society; Centennial Fellow of the College of Earth and Mineral Science, The Pennsylvania State University; Honorary Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin China; and president of the IEEE Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society. Dr. Safari has published over 300 refereed journal articles, and has been granted 18 U.S. patents. He chaired the 10th International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectric (August 1996, East Brunswick NJ) and 7th US-Japan meeting on Ferroelectric and Dielectric Materials (Tsukuba, Japan, November 1995).  

Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity.- Thermodynamics of Ferroelectricity.- Piezoelectricity and Crystal Symmetry.- Crystal Chemistry of Piezoelectric Materials.- Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Technology.- Lead-Based Piezoelectric Materials.- KNN-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics.- Bismuth-based Piezoelectric Ceramics.- Electropolymers for Mechatronics and Artificial Muscles.- Low-Attenuation Acoustic Silicone Lens for Medical Ultrasonic Array Probes.- Carbon-Fiber Composite Materials for Medical Transducers.- Transducer Design and Principles.- Piezoelectric Transducer Design for Medical Diagnosis and NDE.- Piezoelectric Transducer Designs for Sonar Applications.- Finite Element Analysis of Piezoelectric Transducers.- Piezoelectric Transducer Fabrication Methods.- Piezoelectric Fiber Composite Fabrication.- Composition Gradient Actuators.- Robocasting of Three-Dimensional Piezoelectric Structures.- Micropositioning.- Piezoelectric Actuator Designs.- Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting using Bulk Transducers.- Piezocomposite Ultrasonic Transducers for High-Frequency Wire Bonding of Semiconductor Packages.- Piezoelectric MEMS: Materials and Devices.- High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers and Arrays.- Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers.