During your last hike, you may have taken a picture of a beautiful and wild creature: a snake! Were you tempted to move your fingers over its scales to feel its smooth shape? Before long, you may be ...

Cheap piezo buzzers are everywhere. They’re so cheap that they can be used in novelty birthday cards. Applying an alternating voltage across a piezo crystal makes it expand and contract, and fixing ...

Using the piezoelectric principle to transform electrical energy into physical displacement is well-known, but practical piezo motors are hard to find. A recent introduction from Elliptec AG, a ...

Like all ceramics, piezo ceramics are brittle materials that are well suited to handling compressive loads but are highly sensitive to bending, shear and tensile loads. A number of mechanical ...

Before humans discovered ultrasound for a variety of medical, technical and military applications, nature had perfected it over millions of years for navigation under and above water. Dolphins and ...

Sound recording and playback have come a long way in the last century or so, but it’s fair to say there’s still a lot of interesting stuff locked away on old recordings. Not having a way to play it ...

If you are engaged in an energy harvesting project that involves piezo sensors powered by vibrations, you might want to check out the most recent issue of Applied Physics Letters (Applied Physics ...

A High-Speed Active Optics Piezo Deformable Mirror for Laser Focus Control - Adaptive Optics. The piezo-driven deformable mirror can operate with modulation frequencies up to 2 kHz. The internal ...

If you need a wide variety of tones on tap, PRS might have the SE for you here. A semi-hollow electric guitar with humbuckers and a piezo designed with LR Baggs? Yes please! The PRS SE Hollowbody II ...