Solid-state Mechatronics

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This course provides a broad exploration of solid-state mechatronics. Mechatronics deals with solid state devices and systems enabled by piezoelectric effect, electrostatic force, and magnetic and magnetoelectric effect, which are ubiquitous in our society. This course covers key areas of mechatronics, including device fundamentals, key materials, device designs, typical applications and device examples. Applications and devices include solid state actuators and sensors, energy harvesting systems, filters and resonators in wireless communications, transducers in medical imaging and fault detection, and surface acoustic and other guided wave devices in sensing and communications. This course is suitable to graduate students majoring in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, engineering science and mechanics, and other related fields, who are interested in learning the theory of solid state actuators, sensors, and transducers and designing them for industrial and biomedical applications.