Tuomo Siponkoski

Bachelor Thesis:
Processing and characterizing of BaTiO3, Kari Nurmi, University of Oulu, (2014).

In this study different processing steps of ceramic fabrication and the basic theory on piezoelectric ceramics and barium titanate were presented along with the possible methods to replace the conventional sintering. Barium titanate samples were fabricated using the conventional sintering method and their electromechanical properties measured.

Bachelor Thesis:
Measurement software for characterizing piezoelectric materials using biased impedance spectroscopy, Armi Kaarteenaho, University of Oulu, (2016)

In this thesis basics of piezoelectricity and piezoelectric ceramics were introduced. The main focus was on a designing and implementing a measuring software in LabVIEW environment, which can be used to automatically measure resonance frequencies and calculate coupling factors from a bulk piezoceramics.