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  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to pizeoelectric and electrostrictive actuators and electromechanical energy conversion

Overview

Kenji Uchino is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science, with a particular focus on biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and mechanics of materials.

They have published numerous works in the fields of ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, acoustic wave resonator technologies, dielectric materials and actuators, innovative energy harvesting technologies, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, ultrasonics and acoustic wave propagation, and piezoelectric actuators and control.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kenji Uchino include Yoonsang Park, Timo Scholehwar, Eberhard Hennig, Hossein Daneshpajooh, and Minkyu Choi.

Key publication venues where their work has appeared multiple times include Actuators, Insight - Material Science, Ceramics International, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Encyclopedia of RF and Microwave Engineering.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kenji Uchino include:

  • Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: A Systematic Review of Reviews, 2021, MDPI (MDPI AG)
  • Electrostrictive and Piezoelectric Effects in Relaxor Ferroelectrics: Historical Background, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
  • Electromechanical Equivalent Circuit Model of a Piezoelectric Disk Considering Three Internal Losses, 2020, IEEE Access
  • DC bias electric field and stress dependence of piezoelectric parameters in lead zirconate titanate ceramics - Phenomenological approach, 2020, Ceramics International
  • Electrothermal Phenomena in Ferroelectrics, 2020, Actuators

Kenji Uchino has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by World Scientific entitled Essentials of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting in 2020.

In recognition of their work, they were named an IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to piezoelectric and electrostrictive actuators and electromechanical energy conversion.

Best Publications

  • Critical exponents of the dielectric constants in diffused-phase-transition crystals

    Kenji Uchino;Shoichiro Nomura

  • Piezoelectric Actuators and Ultrasonic Motors

    Kenji Uchino

  • Dielectric and Piezoelectric Properties of 0.91Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.09PbTiO3 Single Crystals

    Jun Kuwata;Kenji Uchino;Shoichiro Nomura

  • Dependence of the Crystal Structure on Particle Size in Barium Titanate

    Kenji Uchino;Eiji Sadanaga;Terukiyo Hirose

  • Magnetoelectric Effect in Composites of Magnetostrictive and Piezoelectric Materials

    Jungho Ryu;Shashank Priya;Kenji Uchino;Hyoun Ee Kim

  • Magnetoelectric Properties in Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Laminate Composites

    Jungho Ryu;Jungho Ryu;Alfredo Vázquez Carazo;Kenji Uchino;Hyoun Ee Kim

  • Phase transitions in the Pb (Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 system

    Jun Kuwata;Kenji Uchino;Shoichiro Nomura

  • High-Voltage Photovoltaic Effect in PbTiO3-Based Ceramics

    Kenji Uchino;Yuichi Miyazawa;Shoichiro Nomura

  • Piezoelectric ultrasonic motors: overview

    Kenji Uchino

  • ELECTROSTRICTIVE ACTUATORS: MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS.

    Kenji Uchino

  • Crystal orientation dependence of piezoelectric properties of lead zirconate titanate near the morphotropic phase boundary

    Xiao Hong Du;Jiehui Zheng;Uma Belegundu;Kenji Uchino

  • Energy harvesting using a piezoelectric "cymbal" transducer in dynamic environment

    Hyeoung Woo Kim;Amit Batra;Shashank Priya;Kenji Uchino

  • Electrostrictive effect in lead magnesium niobate single crystals

    K. Uchino;S. Nomura;L. E. Cross;S. J. Jang

  • Large electrostrictive effects in relaxor ferroelectrics

    L. E. Cross;S. J. Jang;R. E. Newnham;S. Nomura

  • Piezoelectric and magnetoelectric properties of lead zirconate titanate/Ni-ferrite particulate composites

    Jungho Ryu;Jungho Ryu;Alfredo Vázquez Carazo;Kenji Uchino;Hyoun Ee Kim

  • Loss mechanisms in piezoelectrics: how to measure different losses separately

    K. Uchino;S. Hirose

  • Effect of the Magnetostrictive Layer on Magnetoelectric Properties in Lead Zirconate Titanate/Terfenol‐D Laminate Composites

    Jungho Ryu;Shashank Priya;Alfredo Vázquez Carazo;Kenji Uchino

  • Composite piezoelectric transducer with truncated conical endcaps "cymbal"

    A. Dogan;K. Uchino;R.E. Newnham

  • Microstructure and piezoelectric properties of 0.95(Na0.5K0.5)NbO3–0.05BaTiO3 ceramics

    Hwi Yeol Park;Cheol Woo Ahn;Hyun Cheol Song;Jong Heun Lee

  • Electrostrictive effect in perovskites and its transducer applications

    Kenji Uchino;Shoichiro Nomura;Leslie E. Cross;Robert E. Newnham

  • Ferroelectric Devices 2nd Edition

    Kenji Uchino

  • Magnetoelectric Properties in Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Laminate Composites : Electrical Properties of Condensed Matter

    Jungho Ryu;Alfredo Vazquez Carazo;Kenji Uchino;Hyoun-Ee Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Shashank Priya
Shashank Priya Pennsylvania State University
Robert E. Newnham
Robert E. Newnham Pennsylvania State University
L. E. Cross
L. E. Cross Pennsylvania State University
Jungho Ryu
Jungho Ryu Yeungnam University
Dwight D. Viehland
Dwight D. Viehland Virginia Tech
Sahn Nahm
Sahn Nahm Korea University
Shuxiang Dong
Shuxiang Dong Peking University
Sridhar Komarneni
Sridhar Komarneni Pennsylvania State University
Hyoun-Ee Kim
Hyoun-Ee Kim Seoul National University
Wenwu Cao
Wenwu Cao Pennsylvania State University

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