@INPROCEEDINGS{Hemsel2013,
  author = {Morita, T. AND Hemsel, T. AND Iijima, T.AND Jeong, D. Y. AND Kanda,
	T. AND Lallart, M. AND Twiefel, J. AND Uzgur, E.},
  title = {Sensors and Actuators A: Physical},
  booktitle = {IWPMA 2012 9th international workshop on piezoelectric materials
	and applications in actuators.},
  year = {2013},
  pages = {1},
  month = {June},
  abstract = {The 9th International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications
	in Actuators (IWPMA 2012) was successfully held on 22–25 April 2012
	in Hirosaki, Japan. The general chair was Prof. M.K. Kurosawa from
	the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. In the past, Korea, Germany,
	Turkey, China, and USA have hosted the annual conference, but this
	was the first time for the annual IWPMA conference to be held in
	Japan. The IWPMA 2012 was organized as a joint symposium with JTTAS
	Smart Actuator/Sensor Study Committee and ICAT International Actuator
	Symposium. More than 150 people from the world (12 countries) participated
	and had fruitful discussions with 138 presentations including 11
	invited talks. In addition to piezoelectric materials and piezoelectric
	actuators, the presentation topics were expanded to include solid-state
	actuators, energy harvesting, multifunctional materials, and other
	current important issues.
	
	
	It is our honor to pronounce that the “Sensors and Actuators A” journal
	has published this special issue on the IWPMA 2012 including the
	best 25 contributions. This issue covers the functional materials,
	such as piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials, and their applications.
	However, for the innovative devices, various ideas concerning materials,
	mechanisms, designs, fabrication process, and control-systems are
	also required to be organically combined. From the view of this concept,
	we believe the published 25 papers can excite the researcher's intellectual
	curiosity concerning these issues and can serve as the driving force
	for further breakthroughs. Please enjoy the latest research results
	selected by our editor team.
	
	
	Finally, we appreciate all participants in the IWPMA 2012 and the
	devoted reviewers for the publication. We hope that the papers in
	this special issue will open up the next researches, which will be
	presented in the future IWPMA conferences.},
  doi = {10.1016/j.sna.2013.06.017},
  owner = {ekubi},
  timestamp = {2018.01.08}
}