(Nanowerk News) Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In ...

The piezoelectric sensors operate according to the piezoelectric effect: electric polarisation occurs upon mechanical deformation of crystals with polar axes. Depending on the cross section, in quartz ...

Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In a recent study, ...

Sensor applications are one of the most logical places to use nanomaterials: the two key features for a sensor are its precision and its size, two areas where nanomaterials can provide big gains.

A KAIST research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Material Science and Engineering has developed a machine learning-based acoustic sensor for speaker recognition. Acoustic ...

Working within the Holst Centre program on Micropower Generation and Storage, researchers have developed a small piezoelectric device capable of harvesting 85 microwatts of electricity from vibrations ...

Penn State's research on KNN piezoelectric materials reveals potential for efficient energy harvesting and biocompatible ...