TY - JOUR KW - Single crystals KW - Piezoelectricity KW - Ferroelectric thin films KW - Microelectromechanical devices KW - Barium titanate KW - Lead-free KW - Orientation dependences KW - Piezoelectric constants AU - J Ouyang AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh AU - A.L Roytburd AB - {The orientation dependences of the converse longitudinal piezoelectric constant d 33,f , and the in-plane converse piezoelectric constant e 31,f , are calculated for tetragonal barium titanate epitaxial films. The calculations demonstrate that both e 31,f and d 33,f have their maximum values along an axis close to the (1 1 1) direction of the pseudo-cubic system, which are similar to the orientation dependence results for a tetragonal BaTiO 3 single crystal. The calculated piezoelectric constants for a (1 1 1) oriented BaTiO 3 epitaxial film (e 31 BT - Applied Surface Science DO - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2005.05.048 LA - eng M1 - 10 N1 - cited By 16 N2 - {The orientation dependences of the converse longitudinal piezoelectric constant d 33,f , and the in-plane converse piezoelectric constant e 31,f , are calculated for tetragonal barium titanate epitaxial films. The calculations demonstrate that both e 31,f and d 33,f have their maximum values along an axis close to the (1 1 1) direction of the pseudo-cubic system, which are similar to the orientation dependence results for a tetragonal BaTiO 3 single crystal. The calculated piezoelectric constants for a (1 1 1) oriented BaTiO 3 epitaxial film (e 31 PB - Elsevier PY - 2006 SP - 3394 EP - 3400 T2 - Applied Surface Science TI - Theoretical investigation of the intrinsic piezoelectric properties for tetragonal BaTiO 3 epitaxial films VL - 252 SN - 01694332 ER -