| Abstrakt: |
Tuning of acoustic wave dispersion in ferroelectrics due to its electrostrictive effect is theoretically investigated. As the acoustic wave is excited electrically in ferroelectrics, the elastic stiffness tensor can be modified by both the linear piezoelectric and nonlinear electrostrictive electromechanical couplings depending on the wave excitation direction of the crystal, where the linear piezoelectric modification has been well characterized and extensively used for the application of piezoelectric-based acoustic wave devices over the past 50 years, but the nonlinear electrostrictive modification, determining the tuning of acoustic wave dispersion in the medium, is still too premature to use the properties in application. For the tuning application, it is essential to know how the electrostrictive strain actually tunes the propagation and displacement of the ferroelectrically active acoustic waves, and this information is currently unavailable. In this paper, the ferroelectrically active acoustic wave propagation and displacement in conjunction with the nonlinear electrostrictive modification are calculated using the plane wave expansion method, and the tunable wave properties associated with the propagation and displacement, are discussed. The electrically excited acoustic wave properties in ferroelectrics are largely modified from the electrostrictive effect, e.g., tuned, excited, vanished, coupled, decoupled, etc., and this should be taken into account in the development of ferroelectric-based acoustic wave devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
