Active Materials

Detroit Auto Show: Audi unleashes the beastly Q7 V12 TDI
Autoblog - Santa Monica,CA,USA
The piezoelectric injectors with their eight-hole nozzles have also undergone a thorough reworking. The tiniest quantities of diesel fuel are injected into …
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Bioceramics – Advanced Materials and Processing Techniques …
Azom.com - USA
… (MAC) and Morgan Electro Ceramics (MEC), is a leading manufacturer of innovative ceramic, glass, precious metal, piezoelectric and dielectric materials. …

‘Bridge’ Concept Can Turn Anything Into Braille
Gizmodo.com - Budapest,Hungary
The braille screen works with electromagnetic or piezoelectric principles. When the current or voltage goes through every array of six stitches, …

Portable sensor can detect cyanide in water
Water Technology Online - Latham,NY,USA
The online, real-time technology uses a flow cell that allows water to react with the gold electrode of a piezoelectric crystal to indirectly sense cyanide …

STM images quantum dot epitaxy inside an MOCVD chamber
Compound Semiconductor - Bristol,UK
This is because the piezoelectric tube, which provides the scanning needed to generate images, cannot operate above 150 °C due to depolarization effects and …

BMW 335i Coup
Independent - London,England,UK
Apparently, this has something to do with its piezoelectric crystals that open electronically to facilitate the direct injection of fuel. …

Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009
Wired News - USA
The piezoelectric materials vibrate a twisted microstructure inside the robot at ultrasonic frequencies. When the twisted structure is compressed against …

Miniature Piezoelectric Accelerometer has mass of 5 g.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA
San Juan Capistrano, California - VIP SENSORS introduces a new product - The Model 2017A is an adhesively mounted piezoelectric accelerometer with integral …

Stanley Develops Mirror Device for Ultracompact Projector
Tech-On English - Hong Kong
Stanley developed a micromirror actuator able to scan laser light along two axes in vertical and horizontal directions with the use of piezoelectric …

“Smart” Aircraft Structures: a Future Necessity
High Performance Composites - USA
… accelerometers, strain gages and pressure sensors, recent advances in micro-sensors have produced miniature eddy current, ultrasonic, piezoelectric, …

X-Change Corporation Receives Purchase Order from the US Navy
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
SAW devices are built on the surface of piezoelectric crystalline materials. This allows the devices to provide long read ranges, work well in proximity to …

Dynamic Pressure Sensors come in miniature package.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Products feature piezoelectric sensing elements and are suited for continuous monitoring or periodic walk-around cylinder balancing. …

Rensselaer Announces Winners of “Change the World Challenge” Idea …
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy,NY,USA
Two teams of students — responsible for inventing a healthier means for open-flame food preparation and a piezoelectric ambient energy harvester — were each …

Nanotechnology: Smaller is Better
Stanford Daily - Palo Alto,CA,USA
To do that, Khuri-Yakub has cast aside the piezoelectric materials that have traditionally been used. Instead he makes arrays in silicon using techniques …

ALPS Develops Piezoelectric-type Slim-format Pump
presseagentur.com (press release) - Munich,Germany
Duesseldorf, Germany, January 29, 2007 - ALPS ELECTRIC EUROPA GmbH has completed development of a piezoelectric-type pump compatible for all broadcast …