The need for precision positioning applications has enormously influenced the research and
development towards the growth of precision actuators. Over the years, piezoelectric …

Piezoelectric actuators are unique driving force‐generation devices, which can transfer input
electric energy into force, displacement, or movement outputs efficiently and precisely via …

Ferroelectric materials have attracted significant interest due to their wide potential in energy
harvesting, sensing, storage, and catalytic applications. For monolithic and dense …

Inversion symmetry in the 1T-phase of pristine dichalcogenide monolayer MX2 (M= Ge, Sn;
X= S, Se) is broken in their Janus structures, MXY (M= Ge, Sn; X≠ Y= S, Se), which induces …

Piezoelectric devices based on a variety of vibration modes are widely utilized in high-tech
fields to make a conversion between mechanical and electrical energies. The excitation of …

Recent research investigations have reported the benefit of enhancing conventional AFM-
based nanoscale machining operations by the introduction of high frequency vibrations …

Plastic ionic molecular crystals are a novel class of materials that have attracted recent
interest due to the discovery of ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties together with an …

Flexible actuators, as the main components of soft robots and intelligent structures, can
produce reversible mechanical deformations in response to external environmental stimuli …

The backward motion phenomenon is widespread in inertial impact, stick-slip, and parasitic
piezoelectric actuators, and seriously limits the development of these actuators for micro …

Multilayer structure is an effective approach for reducing driving voltages or increasing
output electric signal for piezoelectric devices. However, it is a challenge to achieve high …