Sentences with word «piezoelectrics»

The use of piezoelectric materials was their original innovation, and it allowed them to simultaneously measure the flexing and the rotation of the teeter - totter beam.

Each cell has six or eight small holes through which rounded pins can extend and retract with the help of piezoelectric ceramic actuators to represent various Braille characters.

There's no earpiece as well, so if you're one to take calls, you'll have to rely on cantilever piezoelectric ceramic acoustic technology, which transmits sound without the need for a receiver.

The Under Display Fingerprint Scanning Solution from Vivo works by using piezoelectric effects which will generate and receive ultrasonic sound waves when a finger is pressed against the display.

Elsewhere, the original Mi Mix had a «piezoelectric speaker» instead of a normal earpiece speaker, but now, that's been replaced by a thin earpiece in the top bezel.

For it to operate underwater, the team used piezoelectric materials in its construction so that it will be powered by the bobbing of the waves.

Most other atomically thin materials with piezoelectric properties don't maintain their piezoelectricity when stacked, Zelisko said.

The new TD4 features high - pressure common - rail fuel injection with piezoelectric injectors, a variable nozzle turbocharger, a variable swirl system and an uprated engine management system for optimum combustion efficiency.

If that wasn't new - age enough, Xiaomi uses what it calls «cantilever piezoelectric ceramic acoustic technology» in the Mi MIX to replace the earpiece completely, giving it an even more futuristic look and feel.

In this paper, tracking performance and movement precision of piezoelectric actuator as operating parts of ultra-precision cutting unit is improved using feedback control of inverse - hysteresis model to remove hysteresis property.

Leti Chief Scientist Barbara De Salvo Will Help Kick Off ISSCC 2018 with Opening - Day Keynote: In Addition, Leti Scientists Will Present and Demo New Technology for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting February 8th, 2018

The researchers report finding a viable alternative in specially prepared bismuth ferrite film that has piezoelectric properties on par with lead - based compounds.

Previous work by the researchers on piezoelectric textiles has so far mainly focused on sensors and their ability to generate electric signals through pressure sensitivity.

«Woven textiles from piezoelectric yarns makes the technology easily accessible and it could be useful in everyday life.

PA In charge of marketing piezoelectric devices for twelve international partners, as well as, direct sales of a finite element analysis software program for a start up company

Georgia Tech scientists made piezoelectric generators out of nanowires and attached them to tiny hamster jackets.

Acoustic tweezers is a microfluidic device that utilizes ultrasound waves produced by piezoelectric transducers to gently and precisely position biological samples without damage.

We write about piezoelectric generators from time to time, like sneakers that can power your gadgets or kinetic - energy harvesting sidewalks or wave - powered speakers that let us communicate with dolphins, all of which generate energy from movement.

The K2 ski company has even toyed with piezoelectric polymers, which generate an electric charge when twisted.

Conventional materials used to create motion by applying electricity, such as piezoelectric devices, don't work nearly as well at such high temperatures, so the new system could open up a new area of high - temperature sensors and actuators.

Part of the excitement is that such flexible piezoelectric crystals would make more sensitive detectors and could improve the resolution of medical devices that use ultrasound.

Using piezoelectric energy generation technology, a team of researchers led by Zhong Lin Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech, has successfully figured out the age - old question: can hamsters on wheels really power up a device?

Cohen and collaborator Huaxiang Fu have developed a computer model that explains the large piezoelectric response of the lead crystals.

Using piezoelectric technology for energy harvesting is something we've been covering for years.

Piezoelectric motors can move the 12 electrodes in small 1 - micrometre increments and will back off when necessary to avoid damaging nerve cells.

Under the plastic hood is a 2.2 - liter, 16 - valve, four - cylinder turbodiesel engine with piezoelectric fuel injectors.

These materials are called piezoelectric materials.

Many vibration harvesters contain piezoelectric substances that create an electric voltage when mechanically bent.

The team's newly designed flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator directly stimulated a living rat's heart using electrical energy converted from the small body movements of the rat.

Ingenious ideas generated by the competition in previous years include piezoelectric sensors in pavements that convert the vibrations of pedestrians» footsteps into electrical energy, salt - water powered vehicles and bacteria generators that convert food waste in future homes into a source of heat, light and power.

New generation piezoelectric injectors control the fuel volume and the timing of the injection more accurately.

Prospects have become even more appealing after a publication, entitled «Band structure engineering via piezoelectric fields in strained anisotropic CdSe / CdS nanocrystals,» was published in the journal Nature Communications last July.

As a result, the PVDF - carbon hybrids are the best piezoelectric composites that have been reported to date in the scientific literature, Voit says.

Whereas lead - based compounds typically have the greatest piezoelectric potential, the heavy metal has fallen out of favor as device - makers push to eliminate it from all electronics in an attempt to reduce toxic waste.

Both the 362 - hp V6 in the SL 450 and the 449 - hp SL 550 V8 employ ultra-precise tech like piezoelectric Direct Injection and multispark ignition.

Using state - of - the - art non-contact piezoelectric printing technology.

Its advanced six - cylinder engine featuring piezoelectric direct injection and spray - guided combustion generates 215 kW / 292 hp and returns impressively low fuel consumption figures of 9.1 to 9.3 litres per 100 kilometres (NEDC combined).

I haven't heard of successful implementation of piezoelectric valve management (no hydraulic), this is now the much anticipated electric vvt and management.

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But when too many thin piezoelectric layers are stacked, the cantilever can become too stiff for bending - mode vibrational harvesting.

A team of University of California scientists is experimenting with an alternative to lead - based compounds in piezoelectric systems

A ring in the lens is made from piezoelectric elements, which change shape when fed with an electric current.

In an adjoining room, Bar - Cohen shows off foot - long impact drills driven by PZT disks that he is building with his JPL colleagues and Cybersonics, Inc., in Erie, Pa. «Inside this cylinder is a stack of piezoelectric disks,» he states.

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The reason for the triangle shape, they said, is that the shape of the holes can't have mirror symmetry, or else the materials won't become piezoelectric.

Voit is looking to create a similar effect for his PVDF - carbon fibers, which are far better piezoelectric materials than nylon and would contract in response to an electric current.