TY - GEN
T1 - Mechanical and piezoelectric behavior of thin film PZT composites for MEMS applications
AU - Yagnamurthy, S.
AU - Chasiotis, I.
PY - 2011/7/19
Y1 - 2011/7/19
N2 - The elastic and failure mechanical properties, the d 31 piezoelectric coefficient and the effect of applied stress on the hysteresis curves of freestanding PZT composite films, comprised of SiO 2, Pt, PZT and Pt, were measured from microscale tension specimens. The d 31 coefficient was measured from the out-of-plane deflection of biased PZT specimens with dimensions similar to those of MEMS components. An analytical solution for the bending of a multilayered piezoelectric beam was used to compute a first estimate of d 31 as 176±27 pm/V. The field induced in-plane stress hysteresis loops were asymmetric at small in-plane stresses becoming of similar magnitude as the applied stress was increased beyond 300 MPa. Similarly, the intersection of the hysteresis loops shifted from negative to positive electric field at stresses larger than 150 MPa. The applied stress resulted in reduction of the hysteresis magnitude due to mechanical constraints imposed on 90° domain switching. The effect of high in-plane stress on domain switching was also the reason for the hysteretic non-linear stress-strain curves that were recorded for unbiased PZT films.
AB - The elastic and failure mechanical properties, the d 31 piezoelectric coefficient and the effect of applied stress on the hysteresis curves of freestanding PZT composite films, comprised of SiO 2, Pt, PZT and Pt, were measured from microscale tension specimens. The d 31 coefficient was measured from the out-of-plane deflection of biased PZT specimens with dimensions similar to those of MEMS components. An analytical solution for the bending of a multilayered piezoelectric beam was used to compute a first estimate of d 31 as 176±27 pm/V. The field induced in-plane stress hysteresis loops were asymmetric at small in-plane stresses becoming of similar magnitude as the applied stress was increased beyond 300 MPa. Similarly, the intersection of the hysteresis loops shifted from negative to positive electric field at stresses larger than 150 MPa. The applied stress resulted in reduction of the hysteresis magnitude due to mechanical constraints imposed on 90° domain switching. The effect of high in-plane stress on domain switching was also the reason for the hysteretic non-linear stress-strain curves that were recorded for unbiased PZT films.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960326939
SN - 9781441988249
T3 - Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
SP - 261
EP - 266
BT - MEMS and Nanotechnology - Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
T2 - 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
Y2 - 7 June 2010 through 10 June 2010
ER -