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Resonance of a piezo device
Posted 2011年9月30日 GMT-4 00:23 MEMS & Nanotechnology, MEMS & Piezoelectric Devices, Results & Visualization, Structural Mechanics Version 4.2 1 Reply
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I am working on verifying the mode shape of a piezoelectric resonator operating around 1GHz. By applying the appropriate boundary conditions and using the frequency domain study to sweep the frequency, I can almost exactly match the frequency found during lab experiments.
I have two questions, though.
I tried plotting the admittance, but it appears to be zero no matter what frequencies I sweep. However, if I plot the susceptance (the imaginary part of the admittance), I can clearly see the peak at resonance. Do you know why this might be?
Also, what I would like to do is verify the out-of-plane displacements at resonance. So, I try plotting a 1D line plot along the part I'm interested in. I should be getting something in the 200-300 picometer range, but what I get is a line the wiggles and loops in a way that is physically impossible. Is there anything you can tell me about how COMSOL calculates mode shapes, or displacements - is it possible the a round off error is happening somewhere, or is there a bug somewhere? I've tried everything to fix it.
Thanks,
Kamala
Hello Kamala McNaul
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