News tagged with piezoelectric properties

Researchers generate electricity from viruses

Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

3-D view of 1-D nanostructures

Semiconductor gallium nitride nanowires show great promise in the next generation of nano- and optoelectronic systems. Recently, researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering have found new piezoelectric ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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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 ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

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Neutron analysis reveals unique atom-scale behavior of 'cobalt blue'

Neutron scattering studies of "cobalt blue," a compound prized by artists for its lustrous blue hue, are revealing unique magnetic characteristics that could answer questions about mysterious properties in ...

Physics / General Physics

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First proof of ferroelectricity in simplest amino acid

The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid called ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Space foil helping to build safer cars

A special foil sensor developed to measure the pressure on a spaceplane’s wings during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere is now helping to build safer cars.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexagonal pattern. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New technique produces free-standing piezoelectric ferroelectric nanostructures from PZT material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a “soft template infiltration” technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Wringing more energy out of everyday motions

Randomness and chaos in nature, as it turns out, can be a good thing – especially if you are trying to harvest energy from the movements of everyday activities like walking.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Demonstration of ultra-high speed piezoelectric thin film with nanodomain structure

The Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the National Institute for Materials Science, and Kyoto University confirmed for the first time in the world that it is possible to achieve ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Giant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices

Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Insect cyborgs may become first responders, search and monitor hazardous environs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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