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International Journal of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Volume 1 (2015), Article ID 1:IJMME-103, 4 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2015/103
Research Article
Piezoelectric Detection and Response Characteristics of Barium Titanate Unimorph Cantilevers Under AC Electric Fields

Fumio Narita* and Yasuhide Shindo

Department of Materials Processing, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 6-6-02, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Dr. Fumio Narita, Department of Materials Processing, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 6-6-02, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; E-mail: narita@material.tohoku.ac.jp
11 March 2015; 18 April 2015; 20 April 2015
Narita F, Shindo Y (2015) Piezoelectric Detection and Response Characteristics of Barium Titanate Unimorph Cantilevers Under AC Electric Fields. Int J Metall Mater Eng 1: 103. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2015/103
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan under the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C).

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