News tagged with piezoelectric transducer
Award-winning energy harvester brings practical applications closer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the idea of harvesting ambient energy from the environment and using it to generate electricity is alluring, most of the technology so far is capable of generating only very small ...
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Students harness vibrations from wind for electricity
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Vibro-Wind Research Group is working on an efficient, low-cost method of converting vibrations from wind energy to electricity.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 26, 2010 |
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Soldiers turn a march into a charge
Engineers at the University of Leeds (UK) are developing a way to capture the kinetic energy produced when soldiers march and use it to power their equipment.
Jul 27, 2009 |
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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 ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Most powerful millimeter-scale energy harvester generates electricity from vibrations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineers at the University of Michigan have built a device that can harness energy from vibrations and convert it to electricity with five to ten times greater efficiency and power ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Student innovation at Rensselaer transmits data and power wirelessly through submarine hulls
Steel walls are no match for Tristan Lawry. The doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed and demonstrated an innovative new system that uses ultrasound to simultaneously transmit ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Researchers discover potential of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics
Scientists are using Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to discover how we can detoxify our electronic gadgets. Results published in the journal Applied Physics Letters on 1st ...
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Push-Button Logic on the Nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Circuits that can perform logic operations at the push of a button are a dime-a-dozen these days, but a breakthrough by researchers in the USA has meant they can be smaller and simpler than ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Fibers that can hear and sing
For centuries, "man-made fibers" meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it's come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks. But to Yoel Fink, an ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Shoe power generator earns Louisiana Tech professor national attention
Dr. Ville Kaajakari, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, is being featured by MEMS Investor Journal, a national online industry publication, for developing a techno ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics
There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Low Temperature Laser Processing Solves a Problem in Smart Materials Manufacturing
(PhysOrg.com) -- If researchers could integrate some of the active materials, such as perovskites, that have been developed in recent years for microsensor, actuator, and transducer applications directly onto ...
Dec 18, 2008 |
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