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