NSF
Unravelling the Coupled Physics of Piezoelectric and Plasma Behavior in Piezoelectric Stimulated Plasma Sources
Duration: 2022-2025
Role: CO-PI
Research Objective: Piezoelectric materials are the cornerstone of the smart materials that can generate ultrasound and mechanical vibration with their unique property of electromechanical transduction. How the coupled physics between the piezoelectric effect and plasma discharge is related and how they can be predictively generated or controlled is still unknown. Through this collaborative project (PI. Prof. Tanvir Farouk) together we came with the backgrounds on different physics (piezoelectric effect and plasma) to unravel this unique natural phenomenon. Objective is to explain why and how the plasma is formed under certain condition from a piezoelectric transformer.