Electrostatics of Planar Multielectrode Sensors with Application to Surface Elastometry

Systems of planar electrodes arranged on dielectric or piezoelectric layers are applied in numerous sensors and transducers. In this paper electrostatics of such electrode systems is presented and exploited in the analysis of distributed piezoelectric transducer dedicated to surface elastometry of biological tissues characterized by large Poisson modulus. The fundamental Matlab？ code for analyzing complex planar multiperiodic electrode systems is also presented.