This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Piezo ceramics are brittle, difficult to connect electrical leads to, and have no insulating protection to prevent ...

Piezo discs have been around since the 1970s, and such cheap (and easy-to-handle) discs are widely used by avid electronic hobbyists and experimenting musicians all over the world. A piezo disk ...

For a PDF verion of this article, click here. Though the understanding of piezoelectrics is more than a century old, there is, of late, a rapidly expanding interest in piezoelectric actuators, because ...