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However, earlier work has shown unequivocally View Online Downloaded on 01/09/2013 10:24:43. 18 Schematic of surface acoustic wave device. Rayleigh waves contain both shear and compressional components. 63 Historically, the result with the Rayleigh wave device has led to the use of devices which possess shear wave components only, but that are induced by surface launching. 19. 19)86 and Love-wave87 sensors. 88 Finally, we note that there are also a number of structures where, although electrodes are fabricated on the surface of a device, the complete structure is caused to vibrate.

Note that there is at least one piezoelectric crystal in each crystallographic system. In order to maximize the coupling of electrical and mechanical affects it is conventional for practitioners to use particular slices of crystals or cuts. For example, with respect to the major piezoelectric material, quartz, these are AT-, ST- and BT-cuts, etc. For interested readers the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) notation for the various slices is given in ref. 69. 5). From this combination, following certain assumptions, the important equations known as the classical piezoelectric constitutive relationships can be expressed Tij ¼ cijkl Skl þ Zijkl Skl þ eijk Ek ð1:4Þ Di ¼ eik Ek þ eikl Skl ð1:5Þ View Online 21 Introduction to Biosensor Technology Downloaded on 01/09/2013 10:24:43.

1039/9781849735414-00001 20 Chapter 1 piezoelectric effect. Historically, the Curie brothers are universally credited with the discovery of piezoelectricity as a result of their pioneering work on crystals at the Laboratory of Mineralogy at the Sorbonne in Paris. Lord Kelvin66 subsequently worked on a thermodynamic theory of the effect and also late in the 19th century another giant of the scientific world, Lord Rayleigh,67 showed that surface waves could be instigated in elastic solids. This work was the genesis of surface-launched waves in piezoelectric materials discussed briefly in this text.

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