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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2012
Dalhousie University, Halifax, CA;
Philip P. Garland, Fredericton, CA;
Robert B. A. Adamson, Halifax, CA;
Andre B. Bezanson, Halifax, CA;
Jeremy A. Brown, Halifax, CA;
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA;
Abstract
Among other things, piezoelectric materials and methods of their manufacture are described; particularly methods of forming regions of varying crystal structure within a relaxor piezoelectric substrate. Such methods may including heating the piezoelectric substrate above the transition temperature and below the Curie temperature such that a first phase transition occurs to a first crystal structure; rapidly cooling the piezoelectric substrate below the transition temperature at a cooling rate that is sufficiently high for the first crystal structure to persist; and applying an electric field through one or more selected regions of the piezoelectric substrate, such that within the one or more selected regions, a second phase transition occurs and results in a second crystal structure.