News articles tagged with 'piezoelectric'
Rutgers researchers identify materials that may deliver more 'bounce'
— 10 Mar 2011 18:29 | TechnologyRutgers researchers have identified a class of high-strength metal alloys that show potential to make springs, sensors and switches smaller and more responsive…
Nanowires exhibit giant piezoelectricity
— 26 Jan 2011 19:28 | TechnologyGallium nitride (GaN) and zinc oxide (ZnO) are among the most technologically relevant semiconducting materials. Gallium nitride is ubiquitous today in optoelectronic elements such…
NIST pings key material in sonar, closes gap on structural mystery
— 11 Nov 2010 13:05 | TechnologyUsing a neutron beam as a probe, researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have begun to reveal the crystal structure of a compound essential…
Nanogenerators grow strong enough to power small conventional electronics
— 9 Nov 2010 12:40 | TechnologyBlinking numbers on a liquid-crystal display (LCD) often indicate that a device's clock needs resetting. But in the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, the blinking number…
Measuring the electrical properties of nano-crystals
— 22 Oct 2010 20:28 | PhysicsThe UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is working to provide more reliable measurement of the electrical properties of materials used in nanotechnology - which could lead to much…
A step toward lead-free electronics
— 5 Oct 2010 04:37 | TechnologyResearch published today by materials engineers from the University of Leeds could help pave the way towards 100% lead-free electronics…
Lead-free piezoelectric materials of the future
— 15 Sep 2010 10:06 | TechnologyPiezoelectric materials have fantastic properties: squeeze them and they generate an electrical field. And vice-versa, they contract or expand when jolted with an electrical pulse.…
Researchers create new class of piezoelectric logic devices using zinc oxide nanowires
— 3 Sep 2010 13:07 | TechnologyResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application…
Good vibrations: New atom-scale products on horizon
— 23 Aug 2010 18:00 | TechnologyThe generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a wide range of applications ranging from everyday…
MIT researchers create fibres that can detect and produce sound
— 13 Jul 2010 13:07 | TechnologyFor centuries, 'man-made fibres' meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it's come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks.…