Active Materials

Sensor Technologies Witness Tremendous Advancements
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
… Diverse technologies are used in pressure sensing. These include piezoresistive, piezoelectric, capacitiuve, potentiometric, inductive, and resonant. …

New Technology Turns Any Surface Into Interactive Instrument
Synthtopia - AZ,USA
… This video (WMV) shows the technology being used as a musical instrument control surface. Tai-Chi uses tiny piezoelectric sensors to sense surface vibrations. …

Focus on nanoscale science and technology
PhysicsToday.org - USA
… Instrumente has announced the M-511.HD hybrid nanopositioning translation stage, which combines the advantages of electromagnetic and piezoelectric drives. …

Integrated Scanning Force Microscope For Better Characterisation …
AZoNano.com - Sydney,Australia
… The SFM uses an interferometric beam deflection system for detecting cantilever displacement and a piezoelectric scanner which is feedback controlled in the x …

Wireless Factory Sensors Get Kinetic
Electronic Design - USA
… on a design developed at the University of Southampton in the UK Unlike other energy ” scavengers” or “harvesters” that rely on the piezoelectric principle, it …

Noise Cancelling Stethoscope
Slippery Brick - Portland,OR,USA
… with some headphone earbuds. It uses a stack of conventional piezoelectric disk elements driven by a movable piston. The idea is …

Thermal radiation scanning tunnelling microscopy
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
… emission. The sample holder is thermally insulated with ceramics from the piezoelectric transducer used to scan the sample. The …

Digital printing forges ahead
just-style.com - UK
… colours depending on resolution. Piezoelectric drop on demand ink jet print heads are used, each with 256 nozzles. Four heads print …

Mercedes-Benz adding big diesel to S-Class
Autoblog - Santa Monica,CA,USA
… The turbodiesel engine is also clean enough to meet European emission standards for diesels by using common-rail technology, piezoelectric injectors and diesel …

(PRN) - Arlington Park to Install State-of-the-Art Racing Surface …
Bolsamania.com - Madrid,Madrid,Spain
… First Time … [+. PRN) - Advances in Piezoelectric Materials and Devices Drive Novel Applications … [+. PRN) - Immunomedics …

Advances in Piezoelectric Materials and Devices Drive Novel …
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
7 /PRNewswire/ — One key obstacle that material manufacturers face while developing piezoelectric materials is the non- availability of piezoelectric material …

Nikon Enhances Its LiveScan Swept Field Confocal Microscope
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
… LiveScan SFC now supports fast piezoelectric Z and a variety of traditional and EMCCD detectors including the Nikon DQC-FS EMCCD camera with the acquisition …

Robotic hand gets touchy-feely
DailyIndia.com - Jacksonville,FL,USA
… The hand’s sensors consist of patches of piezoelectric crystals surrounded by circuitry, all screen printed directly onto the each fingertip through a …

‘Bridge’ Concept Can Turn Anything Into Braille
Gizmodo.com - Budapest,Hungary
… and pirating at the library). The braille screen works with electromagnetic or piezoelectric principles. When the current or voltage …

Ford plant begins production of 2008 Super Duty truck
Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
… The engine utilizes Ford’s Clean Diesel Technology, which includes a high-pressure, common-rail fuel system, piezoelectric fuel injectors and an advanced …

Harvesters gather energy from the ether, power lightweight systems
EDN.com - Newton,MA,USA
… The company previously offered a piezoelectric harvester for the same application but claims that the new design is more efficient. …

Advances in Piezoelectric Materials and Devices Drive Novel …
Newswire Today (press release) - London,UK
… newswire/ - Palo Alto, CA, United States, 12/12/2006 - Frost & Sullivan finds that emerging technology developments in piezoelectric materials and devices will …

Advanced Ceramics in Aerospace Applications Including Electro …
Azom.com - USA
… and Morgan Electro Ceramics, is a leading manufacturer of innovative products made from a range of ceramic, glass, precious metal, piezoelectric and dielectric …

Privateers ahoy! Big buyouts take bull by the horns
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
… go. In the meantime, the market was told its other technology is a “piezoelectric ballistic crowd control product ShockRounds”. …

Remote Robo-Flagellum to Swim in Humans
Robots.net - Dallas,TX,USA
… lab. The piezoelectric motor will drive a rotor connected to whip-like propellers modeled after the flagellum of E. coli bacterium. …

‘Bridge’ Concept Can Turn Anything Into Braille
Medgadget.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
… It is small and easy to carry, allowing it to be used anywhere. How does it work? The braille screen works with electromagnetic or piezoelectric principles. …