Effects of surface impedance on current density in a piezoelectric resonator for impedance distribution sensing

doi:10.1007/s10483-021-2723-9

Abstract

Abstract: We study the relationship between the surface mechanical load represented by distributed acoustic impedance and the current density distribution in a shear mode piezoelectric plate acoustic wave resonator. A theoretical analysis based on the theory of piezoelectricity and trigonometric series is performed. In the specific and basic case when the surface load is due to a local mass layer, numerical results show that the current density concentrates under the mass layer and is sensitive to the physical as well as geometric parameters of the mass layer such as its location and size. This provides the theoretical foundation for predicting the surface impedance pattern from the current density distribution, which is fundamental to the relevant acoustic wave sensors.

Key words: piezoelectric, resonator, sensor, plate

2010 MSC Number:

74J10

Jing LIU, Jianke DU, Ji WANG, Jiashi YANG. Effects of surface impedance on current density in a piezoelectric resonator for impedance distribution sensing. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition), 2021, 42(5): 677-688.

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