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Electro-momentum coupling in piezoelectric metamaterials with broken inversion symmetry enables asymmetric elastic wave transport by linking macroscopic electric fields to momentum, an effect analogous to Willis coupling in elastic media. A…
A fully-coupled-fluid-structure-piezoelectric model is presented based on the finite element method that is capable of modeling piezoelectric harvesters in the presence of free-surface flow and floating lightweight harvesters with arbitrary…
Energy harvesting (EH) is a multidisciplinary research area, involving physics, materials science and engineering, with the objective of providing renewable sources of sufficient power to operate targeted low-power applications.…
Spin waves and coupling of the spin waves with electromagnetic waves are considered in the multiferroic materials with the electric dipole moment proportional to the scalar product of spins. Nature of this interaction is discussed within…
A technique for the design of conformal metasurfaces with two spatially disconnected space wave ports connected by a surface wave is presented. The passive and lossless metasurface absorbs the incident plane wave at port 1, converts it…
This work deals with shape optimization of electric machines using isogeometric analysis. Isogeometric analysis is particularly well suited for shape optimization as it allows to easily modify the geometry without remeshing the domain. A…
It has been recently shown how computing operations such as high-speed switching, routing, and solving partial differential equations can be performed by exploiting perfect splitting of electromagnetic waves in networks of waveguides from…
We propose a microscopic magneto-electric model in which the coupling between spins and electric dipoles is mediated by lattice distortions. The magnetic sector is described by a spin S=1/2 Heisenberg model coupled directly to the lattice…
Piezo-electric material can be controlled with current as the electrical variable, instead of voltage. The main purpose of this paper is to derive the governing equations for a current-controlled piezo-electric beam and to investigate…
In the studies of piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) systems, literature has shown that circuit advancement has a significant effect on the enhancement of energy harvesting capability in resonance. On the other hand, some recent studies…
We study the spectrum of non-homogeneous partially hinged plates having structural engineering applications. A possible way to prevent instability phenomena is to maximize the ratio between the frequencies of certain oscillating modes with…
Consider the interaction of biharmonic waves with a periodic array of cavities, characterized by the Kirchhoff--Love model. This paper investigates the perfectly matched layer (PML) formulation and its numerical soution to the governing…
We propose a hybrid quantum system where the strong coupling regime can be achieved between a Rydberg atomic ensemble and propagating surface phonon polaritons on a piezoelectric superlattice. By exploiting the large electric dipole moment…
Efficient interconversion of both classical and quantum information between microwave and optical frequency is an important engineering challenge. The optomechanical approach with gigahertz-frequency mechanical devices has the potential to…
The present work attempts to present a consistent and efficient approach to piezoelectric laminated beams. The influence of hypotheses on three-dimensional sectional deformations and stress distributions on the estimate of the beam…
We introduce a novel coupling scheme for maximizing the synchronization of Kuramoto oscillator networks under a fixed coupling budget. We show that by scaling the interaction strength between oscillators according to their frequency…
In order to ensure the fastest wireless energy transfer from a source to the user one needs to maximize the channel capacity for power transport. In communications technologies, the concept of MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) exploits…
The stability of a piezoelectric structure controlled by a digital vibration absorber emulating a shunt circuit is investigated in this work. The formalism of feedback control theory is used to demonstrate that systems with a low…
Herein, we describe a novel device configuration for double-plate electrowetting-on-dielectric system with a floating top-electrode. As conventional double-plate EWOD device requires a grounded electrode on top-plate, it will cause…
Kinetic energy harvesting with piezoelectric bimorphs has attracted considerable research interest in recent years. Many works have been dedicated to the modelling and optimisation of the cantilevered geometry to increase power density,…