News tagged with piezoelectric actuators
New magnetic-field-sensitive alloy could find use in novel micromechanical devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by a group at the University of Maryland (UMd), a multi-institution team of researchers has combined modern materials research and an age-old metallurgy technique to produce an alloy that ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale ...
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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'Flying carpet': Princeton team's plastic sheet can hover above ground (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin sheet of plastic has been making headlines at Princeton as a magical flying carpet, after the publication of a paper describing experiments by the team with their prototype sheet of ...
Oct 01, 2011 |
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Heated AFM tip allows direct fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures on plastic
Using a technique known as thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL), researchers have developed a new way to fabricate nanometer-scale ferroelectric structures directly on flexible plastic substrates that would ...
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Innovative microactuators: Compact 3.5 mm cubic rotary-linear piezoelectric actuator
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microactuators are critical components for industrial applications such as MEMS, micro-medical devices, and microrobotics. However, the fabrication of increasingly sophisticated, millimeter ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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NIST's new scanning probe microscope is supercool
The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of ...
Dec 12, 2010 |
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