Piezo Buzzers vs. Magnetic Buzzers — What’s the Difference?
Communicating information from a product to its end user is a necessary task across many industries — from home appliances and security devices to automotive electronics and office automation devices, audio signals are a necessity. These audio signals can be generated
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Basic Overview of Piezoelectric Materials in Energy Harvesting
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How Piezoelectric Sensors Work
Piezoelectric sensors are essential in various applications such as industrial, medical, aerospace engineering and military operations. Piezoelectric sensors also play a role in numerous everyday devices and applications, including smartphones, musical instruments, automotive sensing, and structural health monitoring in airplanes, buildings and bridges.
Understanding the
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Where Do Piezoelectric Crystals Come From?
Although most of today’s consumers are unfamiliar with how piezoelectricity works, many of the electronic devices they buy contain piezoelectric crystals to perform various internal functions. These crystals have the unique ability to generate an electrical force when subjected to
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How To : Solder to Piezo Components
Soldering is widely accepted as one of the most standard methods of making reliable connections to PZT elements.
It is direct, simple, mechanically sound, and combined with customizable electrode patterns – is applicable to almost any geometry or application. Our below discussion will be focused on
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6 Applications of Piezoelectricity in the Military
Piezoelectricity, which refers to the effect in which physical pressure on a crystal or crystalline ceramic surface results in an electric charge and vice-versa, has many exciting applications for military use. The guide below will discuss how the military
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A Brief History of Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectric components are integral parts of products ranging from microphones to quartz watches and inkjet printers to tuning forks. They power many of the devices we rely on in our daily lives. But what is piezoelectricity, and how has it developed over the centuries
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What Is FEA / Modeling, How Can It Help?
Complex Design? Expensive Prototypes? You're not alone. These are common dilemmas when designing active mechanical systems using piezo materials.
Displacement plot of PZT disk bonded to custom matching layerLet's start with basic design cycles...
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What Is A Phase Diagram?
| Phase Diagram? Morphotropic Phase Boundary? What The Heck Is All That? |
| Phase Diagram? – Morphotropic Boundary?? What the heck is that? A good place to start when working with a family of materials is ALWAYS the phase diagram. What is a Read More... Custom Bimorph Solutions from APC International!
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