The Peano-series solution for modeling shear horizontal waves in piezoelectric plates

The shear horizontal (SH) wave devices have been widely used in electroacoustic. To improve their performance, the phase velocity dispersion and the electromechanical coupling coefficient of the Lamb wave should be calculated exactly in the design. Therefore, this work is to analyze exactly the Lamb waves polarized in the SH direction in homogeneous plate pie.zoelectric material (PZT-5H). An alternative method is proposed to solve the wave equation in such a structure without using the standard method based on the electromechanical partial waves. This method is based on an analytical solution, the matricant explicitly expressed under the Peano series expansion form. Two types of configuration have been addressed, namely the open circuited and the short circuited. Results confirm that the SH wave provides a number of attractive properties for use in sensing and signal processing applications. It has been found that the phase velocity remains nearly constant for all values of h/λ (h is the plate thickness, λ the acoustic wavelength). Secondly the SH0 wave mode can provide very high electromechanical coupling. Graphical representations of electrical and mechanical amounts function of depth are made, they are in agreement with the continuity rules. The developed Peano technique is in agreement with the classical approach, and can be suitable with cylindrical geometry

X-ray residual stress gradient analysis in annealed silver thin films using asymmetric bragg diffraction

Residual stresses were determined in magnetron-sputtered Ag thin films of 400 nm thickness by asymmetric Bragg scattering. The corresponding cos(2 alpha)sin(2) psi plots were nonlinear which indicates a strong residual gradient along the depth of the samples. The in-plane stress was highly compressive at the sample surface and became tensile at the interface. The out-plane stress was compressive and reached its maximum at the sample interface. The stress gradient changed significantly with post-annealing temperature. A Young's modulus of E = 83 GPa and a Poisson ratio of v = 0.3 were measured by surface acoustic wave dispersion