Meet the editors

Dr. Hu Huang received his BE and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Jilin University, China, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), he worked as a research fellow at Keio University, Japan, from 2014 to 2017. Currently, he is a full professor at Jilin University. His research interests include precision instruments, mechanical properties of materials (metallic glass, hard-brittle

materials, etc.), and surface modification of materials. He has published more than eighty peer-reviewed journal papers indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). He is a senior member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and a member of the International Society of Bionic Engineering, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Japan Society for Precision Engineering.

Jianping Li graduated with a Ph.D. in Engineering from Jilin University, China, in 2016. Since then, he has obtained membership in the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and served as a special researcher for foreigners at the Japanese National Chiba University. In 2018, he attended the College of Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, where he is now an associate professor. He has been engaged in the research of mi-

cro/nano-sensing and driving, bioelectrical impedance measurement, and medical application technologies, especially piezoelectric actuators. To this date, he has published more than seventy academic papers and authorized one US patent and fourteen Chinese patents.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Rashed A. Islam*

**Preface XI**

Piezoelectric Materials **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Driving Principles and Structural Design **19**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 57**

Modeling and Control **79**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 99**

Principle, Design and Future of Inchworm Type Piezoelectric Actuators

The Asymmetric Flexure Hinge Structures and the Hybrid Excitation

*by Tinghai Cheng, Xiaosong Zhang, Xiaohui Lu, Hengyu Li, Qi Gao* 

Doping Effect on Piezoelectric, Magnetic and Magnetoelectric Properties

of Perovskite—Ferromagnetic Magnetoelectric Composites

Parasitic Motion Principle (PMP) Piezoelectric Actuators:

*by Jianping Li, Jianming Wen, Yili Hu, Zhonghua Zhang,* 

Methods for Piezoelectric Stick-Slip Actuators

Modeling of Piezoceramic Actuators for Control

Energy Harvesting Prediction from Piezoelectric Materials

*by Joel Shields and Edward Konefat*

with a Dynamic System Model *by José Carlos de Carvalho Pereira*

Definition and Recent Developments

*by Lin Zhang and Hu Huang*

*Lidong He and Nen Wan*

*and Guangda Qiao*

**Section 3**
