Sentences with phrase «with piezoelectric materials»

This is often done with piezoelectric materials, which are able to change shape in the presence of an electric voltage.

Not exact matches

Now, the M.D. Anderson Chair Professor and mechanical engineering department chairman at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Pradeep Sharma, and his doctoral student, Matthew Zelisko, in collaboration with scientists at Rice University and University of Washington, have identified one of the thinnest possible piezoelectric materials on the planet — graphene nitride.

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

The team still needs to improve the material's piezoelectric response, says Muhtar Arhart, a materials researcher at the Carnegie / Doe Alliance Center in Washington DC, not involved with the research.

They then coupled diamond, a material that changes its shape very little with electric voltage, with aluminum nitride, a piezoelectric material, and embedded the IDT inside their new SAW device.