Recent Activities:
Piezoelectric device developments, including materials, device designing and fabrication process; Applications to actuators/sensors; Micro-ultrasonic motors; Piezo-transformers; Energy harvesting; and Robotics.
Research Projects:
- January 2017 - December 2020, "Loss Characterization in Single and Polycrystalline Piezoelectrics," (Sponsor: Office of Naval Research).
- April 2018 - September 2018, "ICAT Membership," (Sponsor: Solid State Ceramics, Inc.).
- September 2015 - August 2018, "Ultrasonic Motor," (Sponsor: Portescap India Pvt. Ltd.).
- September 2012 - June 2017, "Loss Mechanisms in Piezoelectric Single Crystals and Ceramics (Extension Program)," (Sponsor: Office of Naval Research).
- April 2015 - March 2016, "ICAT Annual Membership," (Sponsor: PI Ceramic GmbH).
- April 2015 - March 2016, "ICAT Annual Membership," (Sponsor: Portescap Pvt. Ltd.).
- April 2015 - March 2016, "ICAT Annual Membership," (Sponsor: Toyota Central R&D).
Publications:
Books
- Kenji Uchino, 2018, Chapter 5 Piezoelectric Engery Harvesting Systems with Metal Oxides, Elesevier Science, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino and George K Knopf, 2018, Light Driven Micromachines, CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chapter 1 The development of piezoelectric materials and the new perspective, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chater 3 Relaxor ferroelectric-based ceramics, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chapter 9 Piezoelectric composite materials, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chapter 10 Manufacturing methods for piezoelectric ceramic materials, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chapter 11 Multilayer technologies for piezo-ceramic materials, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chapter 16 Manufacturing technologies for piezoelectric transducers, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chapter 17 High power piezoelectrics and Loss Mechanisms, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Chapter 18 Photostrictive Actuators Based on Piezoelectrics, Woodhead Publishing/Elsevier, Cambridge, UK
- Kenji Uchino, 2017, Global Crisis and Sustainability Technologies, World Scientific Pub., Toh Tuck Link, Singapore, Singapore
- Kenji Uchino, 2016, Ferroelectric Devices & Piezoelectric Actuators, DEStech, Lancaster, PA, USA
Awards:
- Distinguished Honorary Faculty, Schreyer Honorary College, The Penn State University, November 2017 - June 2020
- Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE UFFC Society, IEEE, September 2017 - December 2019