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 ...

Researchers have developed a technique for growing piezoelectric biomolecular crystals that could eliminate the use of toxic ...

Over the past few decades, relaxor-based piezoelectric single crystals (piezocrystals), such as lead magnesium ... This should decrease time-to-market of a new material and make it easier to ...

Piezoelectric quasicrystals (PEQCs ... exhibiting symmetries that are not found in traditional crystals. Fracture Mechanics: The field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation ...

One of the keys to making the latest generation of diesel ... Piezo injectors use a stack of piezo crystal plates that expand when an electric current is applied. That expansion causes the needle ...

making it easier to repair these devices—and paving the way for new ultrasound technologies. The paper, "Electrical De-poling and Re-poling of Relaxor-PbTiO 3 Piezoelectric Single Crystals ...

Finding a local source for crystal earpieces might be tough, but piezo speakers are common on things that make beeps like motherboards or microwave ovens. Hackaday’s own [Steven Dufresne] shows ...

“Piezoelectricity is the ability of materials to generate electric charges under mechanical stress or deform under an electric field, due to their asymmetric crystal structures,” said Khanbareh.

Piezoelectric materials deform (stretch or contract) when an electric field is applied, making them suitable for ... actuators in guided missiles. Single crystals of some synthetic piezoelectrics ...