Abstract: Piezoelectric crystalline film on a substrate, which is a crystalline zinc oxide film with a c-axis perpendicular to the substrate surface, the crystalline zinc oxide film containing as additive elements, vanadium, manganese and at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, iron, cobalt and nickel. The piezoelectric crystalline films are homogeneous and have high resistivity and a smooth surface so that they can be used as a transducer with good conversion efficiency in a wide range of low to high frequencies.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device employing surface skimming bulk waves comprises a piezo electric substrate having a flat surface which carries an input transducer and an output transducer for respectively lanuching and receiving acoustic waves into and from the bulk of the substrate. The substrate may be of quartz, lithium tantalate, or lithium niobate and has the flat surface orientated so that a surface skimming bulk wave is launched without generation of surface acoustic waves.

Abstract: Piezoelectric crystalline films which consist essentially of a crystalline zinc oxide film with a c-axis perpendicular to a substrate surface containing 0.01 to 20.0 atomic percent of manganese with or without 0.01 to 20.0 atomic percent of copper.

Abstract: Objects are displaced with precision over very small distances by a micropositioner which includes a body of crystalline material having at least one domain wall. One end of the crystalline body is affixed to a base. An object to be moved is secured to the opposite end. The crystalline material is such that movement of the domain wall causes relative motion between the ends of the crystalline body, resulting in a displacement of the object with respect to the base. A ruled scale is disposed along the path of travel of each domain wall to indicate displacement over known, precisely controllable distances. In a first embodiment, the object is a microprobe and the crystalline body includes a single domain wall. Movement of the latter provides linear motion of the microprobe. In another embodiment, the object is an electron microscope grid assembly. Here the crystalline body includes two domain walls, allowing two-dimensional planar motion of the assembly.

Abstract: Ferroelectric crystals and ceramics prepared with tailored domain patterns hich are selected to enhance or suppress certain modes of vibration which may include those normally unattainable such as, for example, second harmonics.

Abstract: A singly rotated propagation surface defining cut of single crystal berlinite (AIPO.sub.4) is utilized to provide a temperature compensated surface acoustic wave (SAW) substrate having a high piezoelectric coupling factor. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a berlinite substrate member having a propagation surface that substantially coincides with a plane defined by Euler angles Lambda = 0.0.degree., mu = 80.4.degree., and Theta = 0.0.degree..

Abstract: Doubly rotated propagation surface defining cuts of single crystal berlinite (AIPO.sub.4) are utilized to provide temperature compensated surface acoustic wave (SAW) substrates having high piezoelectric coupling factors and low diffraction losses. A preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a berlinite substrate member having a propagation surface that substantially coincides with a plane defined by Euler angles Lambda = 76.8.degree., mu = 90.0.degree., and Theta = 11.5.degree.. An alternative embodiment utilizes a propagation surface that substantially coincides with a plane defined by Euler angles Lambda = 79.7.degree., mu = 90.0.degree., and Theta = 15.5.degree..

Abstract: An improved AT-cut crystal oscillator for electronic watches. The AT-cut crystal oscillator is of substantially disc-shape. Furthermore, the AT-cut crystal oscillator is shaped in cross-section such that the periphery of the disc-shaped crystal oscillator is abruptly tapered. In the preferred embodiment, the cross-section is trapezoidal.

Abstract: The transducer of this invention utilizes an annular lithium niobate crystal operated in the compression mode with the sensitive axis of the crystal arranged at an angle of about -51.4.degree. to the Z, or optical, axis of the crystal in the first and third quadrants of the Y-Z plane of the crystal. This accelerometer has high efficiency and operates effectively over a wide range of temperatures, including high temperatures above 1000.degree. F.

Abstract: A lithium niobate piezoelectric single crystal transducer having selected rotational orientations with respect to X, Y and Z rectangular coordinate axes. Compressional mode accelerometers having low or zero shear and torsion sensitivity are provided in which the crystal is oriented, in IRE notation, as (a) a (yxl) +38.6.degree. cut or symmetrical equivalents thereof, such as (zxl) (b) a +60.degree./+51.4.degree. cut. Shear mode accelerometers having low or zero compression sensitivity are provided in which the crystal is oriented, in IRE notation, as (a) (xyl) +31.7.degree. cut, or symmetrical equivalents, and (b) an (xyl) +76.7.degree. cut.