The second edition of Piezoelectric Transducers and Applications includes these new developments together with a deep revision and enlargement of the topics already included in the first edition. It provides a guide for graduate students and researchers to the current state of the art of this complex and multidisciplinary area. The book fills an urgent need for a unified source of information on piezoelectric devices and their astounding variety of existing and emerging applications. Some of the chapters focus more on the basic concepts of the different disciplines involved and are presented in a didactic manner. Others go deeper into the complex aspects of specific fields of research, thus reaching the technical level of a scientific paper. Among other topics resonant sensors, especially bulk acoustic wave thickness shear mode resonators, chemical and bio-sensors, as well as broadband ultrasonic systems are treated in-depth.

Associated Editors and Contributors

1 Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity

2 Overview of Acoustic-Wave Microsensors

3 Models for Resonant Sensors

4 Models for Piezoelectric Transducers Used in Broadband

5 Interface Electronic Systems for AT-Cut QCM Sensors:A comprehensive review

6 Interface Electronic Systems for Broadband Piezoelectric

7 Viscoelastic Properties of Macromolecules

8 Fundamentals of Electrochemistry

9 Chemical Sensors

10 Biosensors:Natural Systems and Machines

11 Modified Piezoelectric Surfaces

12 Fundamentals of Piezoelectric Immunosensors

13 Combination of Quartz Crystal Microbalance with other Techniques

14 QCM Data Analysis and Interpretation

15 Sonoelectrochemistry

16 Ultrasonic Systems for Non-Destructive Testing Using Piezoelectric Transducers:Electrical Responses and Main Schemes

17 Ultrasonic Techniques for Medical Imaging and Tissue Characterization

18 Ultrasonic Hyperthermia

Appendix A:Fundamentals of Electrostatics

Appendix B:Physical Properties of Crystals

Index