James Bond would have loved to get his hands on piezoelectric materials. Literally when you twist or bend piezoelectric material, it generates a charge. So if microbots were made with piezoelectric ...

A typical piezoelectric sensor comprises a disk of PZT-5A ceramic material with metallized electrodes on its surfaces. Applying electrically conductive epoxy to the electrodes connects external wiring ...

Piezoelectric crystals are a class of materials that exhibit a unique property called piezoelectricity. These crystals generate an electrical charge when subjected to mechanical stress or strain, and ...

(Nanowerk News) Combining materials systems that exhibit interesting physical properties can lead to structures with new functionalities and superior performance characteristics. A good demonstration ...

Piezo elements are electromechanical transducers that convert mechanical forces (pressure, tensile stress or acceleration) into voltages. The inverse piezoelectric effect, precisely the opposite, ...

For a PDF verion of this article, click here. Though the understanding of piezoelectrics is more than a century old, there is, of late, a rapidly expanding interest in piezoelectric actuators, because ...

Could piezoelectrics soon power your on-bike electronics? As the energy required to power on-bike devices, such as LED lights and GPS computers, has decreased, the potential to employ novel, discreet ...

Piezoelectricity was discovered by two French scientists’ brothers, Jacques and Pierre Curie, in 1880. They found out about piezoelectricity after first realizing that pressure applied to quartz or ...