Vibration in aerospace structures can lead to structural damage. To solve this problem, the implementation of active vibration control must be considered. This paper investigates active vibration control under the persistent resonant excitation of a clamped-clamped piezoelectric plate system. The finite element method (FEM) and ANSYS modal analysis methods are utilized to obtain the dynamics mo...

This paper reports on the first demonstration of an ultra-high resolution (~371 pW/Hz1/2) uncooled infrared (IR) detector based on a high frequency (136 MHz) Aluminum Nitride (AlN) piezoelectric resonant micro-plate completely released from the substrate and supported by two nanoscale Platinum (Pt) anchors. For the first time, fully metallic tethers were employed to support the freestanding vib...

The propagation of Lamb waves in elastic plates is analyzed both numerically and experimentally. A Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer (SLDV) is here used to detect and visualize transient waveforms propagating in an elastic plate at low ultrasonic frequencies. The waves are excited by a piezoelectric crystal glued to the plate surface and actuated by sinusoidal pulses of varying frequency. The p...