The piezoelectric effect is simple in its rules: Apply mechanical stress to a material and you generate an electric charge. The inverse is also true: Apply a voltage to a material, and it changes ...

Figure 1: Piezoelectric sensor performances for the lead-free (LF) piezoelectric ceramics. For the non-textured LF4 (Fig. 4a), the electric-field-induced strain was unstable within this temperature ...

Dublin, Jan. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Piezoelectric Devices Market Share, Size, Trends, Industry Analysis Report, By Product; By Material; By Application; By Element; By Region Segment ...

Semi-active suspension is one of many effective devices to improve vehicle stability, controllability and riding comfort. A practical means to realize semi-active suspension is to vary the damping ...

Dublin, Oct. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Piezoelectric Devices Market by Product (Sensors, Actuator, Motor, Generator, Transducer, Transformers, Resonator ...

A research team has developed a machine learning-based acoustic sensor for speaker recognition. The team fabricated a flexible piezoelectric membrane by mimicking the basilar membrane in the human ...

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, ...

This project is to prototype a set of self-powered (such as piezoelectric, thermostat, solar, etc) embedded sensor systems for pervasive computing. A tangible exam is a body-temperature powered motion ...

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 ...

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.

While learning about different types of vibration sensors for condition monitoring, I came across a cheap piezoelectric shock/tap/vibration sensor switch module hiding in a corner of my messy ...