Heat and pressure can deteriorate the properties of piezoelectric materials that make state-of-the-art ultrasound and sonar technologies possible—and fixing that damage has historically required ...

Now, the UD-based research team has been awarded a U.S. patent for the use of this innovative material to produce piezoelectric devices. Along with patents already awarded in several other countries, ...

1 Materials exhibiting the piezoelectric effect can be natural, such as quartz, or synthetically made, like lead zirconate titanate (PZT) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). Piezoelectric materials ...

Stronger cell phone signals, more accurate sensors and cleaner energy may be achieved by adding a simple step to the industrial fabrication process of certain semiconductor materials, documented in a ...

A research team led by Dr. Lim Sang-kyu in DGIST's Department of Energy and Environmental Technology has developed a smart fiber sensor that can detect natural disasters such as landslides in real ...

Piezoelectric materials generate an electric charge in response to applied mechanical stress. Bone is a piezoelectric material. Because it possesses an electrical microenvironment, electrical ...

STMicroelectronics, a global leader in MEMS, has played a pivotal role in the MEMS market for over two decades. The company ...

New York, United States , Jan. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Piezoelectric Materials Market Size to Grow from USD 1.6 Billion in 2022 to USD 2.2 Billion by 2032, at a Compound Annual ...

Piezoelectric materials have many applications, including sonar technologies and devices that generate and sense ultrasound waves. But for these devices to efficiently generate sonar or ultrasound ...

Heat and pressure can deteriorate the properties of piezoelectric materials that make state-of-the-art ultrasound and sonar technologies possible – and fixing that damage has historically required ...