Piezoelectric Technology: Materials and Applications for Green Energy Harvesting
暫譯: 壓電技術：綠色能源收集的材料與應用

本書涵蓋了綠色壓電能量收集（PEH）技術的最新進展。它強調了PEH的不同方面，從材料、合成及表徵技術到應用。

Swetapadma Praharaj is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Applied Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. She obtained her M.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the National
Institute of Technology (NIT), Roukela, and was awarded with the Institute's silver medal for her performance. Thereafter, she completed her PhD in Physics at KIIT, during which she honed her expertise on the development of lead-free piezoceramics and improvement of their figures of merit. To her credit, she has published in 30 peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Praharaj applies her expertise to best tailor the functionalities of eco-friendly ceramic materials that are the materials of choice in electronic components and hightech machines. She has a keen interest in developing high-strain and temperature-stable high Tc ceramics (applicable in actuators, sensors, and capacitors) by compositional engineering. She is proficient in evaluating the performance-based figures of merit of materials in terms of S-E, P-E, Dielectric, and impedance spectroscopy. Currently, Dr. Praharaj is working on designing energy storage and harvesting devices using lead-free piezoelectric and supercapacitor (electrode) materials.

Dibyaranjan Rout is currently working as Associate Professor at the School of Applied Sciences (Physics), Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, and subsequently took a postdoctoral position in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea. He also served as a Research Assistant Professor in the same institute for two years. To his credit, he has published more than fifty papers in peer-reviewed journals. Under his supervision, five PhDs and ten master's theses have been awarded.

Dr. Rout's research interest encompasses the structure-process-property relationships exhibited by functional/ smart materials, particularly lead-free piezoelectric/multiferroic/high-Tc relaxor materials. He is keen to design and develop such novel and eco-friendly materials in the form of bulk ceramics, nanoparticles, nanostructures, thick films, fibers, and nanocomposites using ease and cost-effective processes (solid state, reaction, soft chemical, spray pyrolysis, electrospinning) with adequate figures of merit suitable for industrial applications (specially actuators, multi-layer ceramic capacitors, energy storage/harvesting, and dye degradation).

Swetapadma Praharaj 目前擔任印度奧迪沙邦布巴內斯瓦爾的卡林加工業技術學院（KIIT）應用科學學院物理系的副教授。她在國立技術學院（NIT）魯克拉獲得冶金與材料工程的碩士學位，並因其優異表現獲得該院的銀獎。隨後，她在KIIT完成了物理學的博士學位，期間專注於無鉛壓電陶瓷的開發及其性能指標的提升。她已在30本同行評審的期刊上發表論文。

Praharaj博士運用她的專業知識，最佳化環保陶瓷材料的功能，這些材料是電子元件和高科技機器的首選。她對於通過組成工程開發高應變和高溫穩定的高Tc陶瓷（適用於致動器、傳感器和電容器）有濃厚的興趣。她擅長評估材料在S-E、P-E、介電和阻抗光譜方面的性能指標。目前，Praharaj博士正在設計使用無鉛壓電和超級電容器（電極）材料的能量儲存和收集裝置。

Dibyaranjan Rout 目前擔任卡林加工業技術學院（KIIT）應用科學學院（物理系）的副教授。他在印度理工學院（IIT）馬德拉斯獲得物理學博士學位，隨後在韓國科學技術院的材料科學與工程系擔任博士後研究員。他還在同一機構擔任了兩年的研究助理教授。他已在同行評審的期刊上發表超過五十篇論文。在他的指導下，已有五位博士生和十篇碩士論文獲得學位。

Rout博士的研究興趣涵蓋功能性/智能材料所表現的結構-過程-性質關係，特別是無鉛壓電/多鐵性/高Tc放鬆材料。他熱衷於設計和開發這些新穎且環保的材料，形式包括塊狀陶瓷、納米顆粒、納米結構、厚膜、纖維和納米複合材料，並使用簡便且具成本效益的工藝（固態、反應、軟化學、噴霧熱解、靜電紡絲）來達到適合工業應用（特別是致動器、多層陶瓷電容器、能量儲存/收集和染料降解）的性能指標。