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 ...

To increase the accessibility of piezoelectric transducers and actuators for OEM designers, manufacturers may package these devices inside a protective arrangement of flexures. This approach offers a ...

Wearable displacement sensors are currently being actively studied which are attached to a human body, detect movements in real time and convert them into electrical signal. However, research on ...

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 ...

Designing with piezoelectric sensors might seem, at first glance, a bit trivial but make no mistake, there are certain pitfalls of which to be aware as well as diverse configurations and internal ...

Motion and positioning devices play an integral role in the life-science and medical engineering fields, fulfilling their many different requirements. The spectrum extends from simple low-energy drive ...

How does a piezoelectric transducer (actuator) work? Modern Piezo actuators are based on thin piezoceramic layers manufactured in a co-fired process to form a monolithic unit. They are also called ...

Design your piezoceramic component with this piezo transducer calculator. (Nanowerk News) The PI Piezo Component / Transducer Calculator is an online engineering tool designed to help users quickly ...

AUBURN, Mass., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PI, a global leader in precision motion control and nanopositioning, is extending the capabilities of its renowned PICMA® piezo stack actuator series ...

Will piezoelectric-based speakers replace traditional speakers over the coming years in space-constrained devices? We have definitely seen the use of piezo transducers in e.g. high-end televisions ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The development of nanoscale devices and applications requires ultra-sensitive sensing systems that can offer not only atomic resolution imaging but also sub nanometer scale ...