title: Love waves propagation in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric layer on a piezomagnetic half-space.
abstract: A theoretical approach is taken into consideration to investigate Love wave propagation in a transversely isotropic piezoelectric layer on a piezomagnetic half-space. The magneto-electrically open and short conditions are applied to solve the problem. The phase and group velocity of the Love wave is numerically calculated for the magneto-electrically open and short cases, respectively. The variations of magneto-electromechanical coupling factor, mechanical displacements, electric and magnetic potentials along the thickness direction of the layers are obtained and discussed. The numerical results clearly show the influence of different stacking sequences on dispersion curves and on magneto-electromechanical coupling factor. This work may be relevant to analysis and design of various acoustic surface wave devices constructed from piezoelectric and piezomagnetic materials.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Physics of Materials, Faculty of Science of Sfax, BP 1171, 3000 University of Sfax, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Hamdi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ezzin
authors.affiliation: Sfax Preparatory Engineering Institute, Menzel Chaker road 0.5 km, BP 1172, Sfax 3000, Tunisia. Electronic address: morched_benamor@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: Morched
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ben Amor
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Physics of Materials, Faculty of Science of Sfax, BP 1171, 3000 University of Sfax, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Mohamed Hédi
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Ben Ghozlen
keywords: Love waves; Multiferroic composites; Pizoelectric/piezomagnetic material