Sentences with phrase «creating mechanical waves»

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These materials are also used in everyday devices, such as loudspeakers, which rely on piezoelectrics to convert electrical signals to mechanical vibrations which create sound waves to produce the desired acoustic signal.

Due to their quantum mechanical wave - like properties, when electrons are scattered off a crystal, they interfere with each other to create a diffraction pattern.

A team from the University of Southern California has created metamaterials that can be remotely switched between active control and passive states, and block sound waves and mechanical vibrations.