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Sensors 2012, 12, 11946-11956; doi:10.3390/s120911946 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Electrostatics of Planar Multielectrode Sensors with Application to Surface Elastometry Eugene Danicki ⋆ and Yuriy Tasinkevych Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 5B Pawinskiego str., 02-106 Warsaw, Poland; E-Mail: yurijtas@.pl * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: edanicki@.pl; Tel.: +48-22-826-1281 (ext. 285); Fax: +48-22-826-9815. Received: 18 July 2012; in revised form: 2 August 2012 / Accepted: 6 August 2012 / Published: 29 August 2012 Abstract: 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 R modulus. The fundamental Matlab code for analyzing complex planar multiperiodic electrode systems is also presented. Keywords: interdigital transducer; surface elastometry; BIS-expansion 1. Introduction In many sensors, electric field is applied to investigate body by multiple electrodes which frequently can be considered periodic. This for example is the case of surface wave sensors of gas, actuators and linear ultrasonic motors utilizing planar metal strips as