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2. Piezoelectricity
¡ Piezoelectricity refers to the linear coupling between mechanical stress and
electric polarization (the direct piezoelectric effect) or between mechanical
strain and applied electric field (the converse piezoelectric effect).
Equivalence between the direct and converse effects can be shown using
Maxwell’s relations:
¡ Principal piezoelectric coefficient, d, relates polarization P to stress σ in the
direct effect and strain ε to electric field E.
¡ Units of d: [C/N] or [m/V]
¡ Typical values for useful piezoelectric materials: ~ 1 pC/N for quartz to ~ 1000
pC/N for PZT (lead zirconate titanate).
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3. Direct piezoelectric effect
¡ The piezoelectric moduli is a rank-3 tensor:
¡ It therefore transforms as
¡ As previously shown, the piezoelectric coefficients are
zero for all centrosymmetric crystals (inversion center).
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Pi = dijkσ jk
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4. Voigt notation for piezoelectric moduli
¡ The piezoelectric moduli always act in pairs.
¡ Earlier, we have shown that 3x3 symmetric tensors such as stress and strain
can be represented as a 6-element vector. Using the same concept, we can
simplify the piezoelectric moduli to a 3x6 matrix as follows.
¡ However, here we encounter a problem that we cannot apply a without a
. In order to go to a matrix notation, the piezoelectric moduli is defined as:
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Pi = dijkσ jk = di11σ11 + di22σ22 + di33σ33 + di23σ23 + di32σ32 …(total of 27 elements!)
Pi = dijσ j = di1σ1 + di2σ2 + di3σ3 + di4σ4 + di5σ5 + di6σ6
σ23
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elements instead of 27.
6. Converse piezoelectric moduli
¡ The same coefficients apply to the converse piezoelectric effect (note
order of indices!)
¡ Similarly,
¡ Again, we note that by definition,
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εjk = dijkEi
ε11 = d111E1 + d211E2 + d311E3
ε22 = d122E1 + d222E2 + d322E3
ε33 = d133E1 + d233E2 + d333E3
ε23 = d123E1 + d223E2 + d323E3
ε32 = d132E1 + d232E2 + d332E3
ε23 =ε32
ε23 +ε32 = (d123 + d132 )E1 +(d223 + d232 )E2 +(d323 + d332 )E3 =γ4
7. Voigt notation for converse
piezoelectric effect
¡ Recall that we earlier defined the vector notation for the strain tensor
to be the engineering shear strains (2 x strain) for the off-diagonals
elements. This in fact allows us to retain the same form of the matrix
for the converse piezoelectric effect as the direct piezoelectric effect!
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8. Symmetry restrictions on piezoelectric
moduli
¡ As there are many more terms, we are not going to go
through the exercise of deriving all the possible
piezoelectric moduli tensors / matrices.
¡ We will just go through a few examples to show how these
can be derived, and state the different forms.
¡ Note that while the Voigt form is useful for performing
computations, the information about how the tensor
transforms is “lost”. You will need to go back to the full
tensor form to determine the transformation.
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9. d13 in monoclinic crystals
¡ Consider monoclinic crystals with a two-fold rotation axis (2):
¡ For monoclinic crystals with a mirror m about the a-c plane:
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12. Examples of Piezoelectric Materials
¡ Quartz
¡ Consider the converse piezoelectric effect when a field of 100 V/cm is
applied in the X1 direction
¡ This is an extremely small strain. But quartz has the advantage of
being low cost, chemically stable and mechanically stable.
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Piezoelectric moduli
X1
X2
ε11 = 2.3×10−12
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= 2.3×10−8
Full derivation in Handouts
13. Examples of Piezoelectric Materials
¡ Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (ADP)
¡ Used in sonar trasducers
¡ Fairly large d33 (more than 10 times the largest moduli in
quartz)
¡ However, fairly soft and moisture sensitive.
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14. PZT (PbZr1−xTixO3)
¡ Used extensively in trasducer technology
¡ Underwater sonar, biomedical ultrasound, multilayer actuators for
fuel injection, piezoelectric printers, and bimorph pneumatic valves
all make use of poled PZT ceramics.
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3m with [111] polar axis 4mm with [001] polar axis
Piezoelectric properties enhanced by
choosing compositions close to morphotropic
boundary between rhombohedral and
tetragonal distortions.
Heating above Curie point, the crystal
structure becomes centrosymmetric, and all
electric dipoles vanish. As the material is
cooled in the presence of a sufficiently large
electric field, the dipoles tend to align with the
applied field, all together giving rise to a
nonzero net polarization.
15. PZT, contd
¡ Electrically poled materials belong to Curie symmetry ∞m, which has
piezoelectric tensors of the following form:
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0 0 0 0 d15 0
0 0 0 d15 0 0
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¡ Intrinsic effects: Under a tensile stress parallel to the dipole moment, there is
an enhancement of the polarization along [001] = Z3. When a tensile stress is
applied perpendicular to the dipole, the polarization along Z3 (d33 and d31) is
reduced. When the dipole is tilted by shear stress, charges appear on the side
faces (d15).
¡ Extrinsic contributions: Doping with higher or lower-valent ions.
¡ Nb5+ for Ti4+ gives soft PZT with easily movable domain walls and a large
piezoelectric coefficient. Used in hydrophones and other sensors.
¡ Fe3+ for Ti4+ gives hard PZTs, used in high-power transducers because they
will not depole under high fields in the reverse directions.
16. Elasticity
¡ All materials undergo shape change under a mechanical force.
¡ Hooke’s Law (small stresses):
¡ where s are known as the elastic compliance coefficients (m2/N), and c are known as
the stiffness coefficients (N/m2).
¡ Typical values:
¡ Fairly stiff material like a metal or a ceramic, c is about 1011 N/m2
¡ Note that Hooke’s Law does not describe the elastic behavior at high stress levels that
requires higher order elastic constants. Irreversible phenomena such as plasticity and
fracture occur at still higher stress levels.
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εij = sijklσkl
σij = cijklεkl
17. Stiffness and compliance coefficients
¡ The stiffness and compliance coefficients are rank 4
tensors and transform as:
¡ There are 81 (34) coefficients in total, though the actual
number of non-zero independent coefficients is
considerably reduced by the fact that both the strain and
stress are symmetric rank 2 tensors.
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cijkl
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sijkl
! = aimajnakoalpsmnop
18. Voigt notation
¡ Similarly, the stiffness and compliance can be
represented as 6x6 matrices operation on the
6 element stress and strain vectors.
¡ However, the energy density is given by:
¡ Hence, the compliance and stiffness matrices
comprises of at most 21 independent values.
Symmetries above triclinic would have fewer
independent values.
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dW =σidεi = cijεjdεi
∂2
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∂εj∂εi
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∂2
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∂εi∂εj
= cji
Since the order of differentiation does not matter,
cij = cji
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σ4
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19. Conversion between tensor and matrix
notations
¡ Stiffness
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σij = cijklεkl
σ11 = c1111ε11 +c1112ε12 +c1121ε21 +c1122ε22 +…
The corresponding matrix form is
σ1 = c11ε1 +c16γ6 +c12ε2 +… (recall that γ6 =ε12 +ε21)
Hence, there is no factor of 2 in the conversion for the stiffness tensor to matrix.
21. Symmetry restrictions on compliance and
stiffness coefficients
¡ Similar to piezoelectric coefficients, we need to use the full tensor
notation to work out the effects on symmetry on the compliance and
stiffness coefficients.
¡ Let’s consider a crystal with point group 4/m. Considering the 4 // Z3,
we have X1’ = X2, X2’ = -X1, X3’ = X3. Hence, we can show that
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22. Stiffness matrices for the 32 point
groups
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23. Stiffness and compliance relations
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Using the matrix notation,
σ = cε = csσ
Hence, cs =1
Converting to the Einstein notation,
cijsjk =δik
In full tensor notation, we have
cijklsklmn =δimδjn
Example: For cubic crystals with only three independent coefficients,
it can be shown that:
c11 =
s11 + s12
(s11 − s12 )(s11 + 2s12 )
c12 = −
s12
(s11 − s12 )(s11 + 2s12 )
c44 =
1
s44
24. Compressibility
¡ Compressibility is defined as
¡ where V is volume and p is hydrostatic pressure.
¡ As noted earlier, change in volume per unit volume is:
¡ For hydrostatic pressure, we have
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K = −
1
V
dV
dp
ΔV
V
=ε11 +ε22 +ε33 =εii
εii = siikl pδkl
Hence,
K = s1111 + s1122 + s1133 + s2211 + s2222 + s2233 + s3311 + s3322 + s3333
(sum of upper left 3x3 sub-matrix of compliance matrix)
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crystals
¡Crystals with long weak bonds tend to have
higher compressibilities.
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26. Anisotropy factor
¡ Consider the stiffness in an arbitrary Z1’ direction. We
have:
¡ For cubic crystals, we only have three non-zero elements,
which gives
¡ So even in cubic crystals, the stiffness is anisotropic. The
only exception is when
¡ Hence, is defined as the anisotropy factor.
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c1111
! = a1ma1na1oa1pcmnop
c11
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2
a12
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c11 = c12 + 2c44
A =
2c44
c11 −c12
27. Typical values of A
¡ A = 1 implies the crystal is isotropic.
¡ A < 1 implies that the crystal is stiffest along <100> cube axes
¡ A > 1 implies crystal is stiffest along <111> cube diagonals.
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Stiff along <111>
Stiff along <100>
28. Summary on Tensors
¡ In this second part of the course, you have been given an overview of tensors
and their application to represent fields (e.g., stress, strain, polarization) and
properties (e.g., conductivity, piezoelectric moduli, stiffness and compliance).
¡ It is of course impossible to cover all the different kinds of material properties,
but the concepts and tools you have learned (transformation of tensors,
symmetry restrictions on tensor values, etc.) thus far should be readily
generalizable to any properties you encounter in future.
¡ Gap in coverage: Due to limits of time, I have elected not to cover magnetic
group symmetries and axial tensor properties. Interested parties are referred
to the relevant sections in Structure of Materials and Properties of Materials
for a detailed discussion on these topics. The general concepts are similar,
but the introduction of time reversal greatly increases the complexity of
symmetry considerations (122 magnetic point groups and 1651 magnetic
space groups!)
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