Most touchscreen panels have a limited type of haptic feedback or none at all. This is also true for many types of handheld or wearable devices like watches, touchpads, keyboards, a mouse, etc. The ...

Like all ceramics, piezo ceramics are brittle materials that are well suited to handling compressive loads but are highly sensitive to bending, shear and tensile loads. A number of mechanical ...

Throughout the surgical process, the surgeon must have access to a real-time assessment of blood vessels to make evaluations relative to the flow of blood. Piezo transducers are at the heart of ...

Piezo specialist PI (Physik Instrumente) has published a new brochure on medical applications of piezo ceramic actuators, transducers and motion components. Download the Piezo Drive Solutions for ...

Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers play a critical role in modern sensing and actuation by converting electrical signals into high‐frequency mechanical vibrations and vice versa. Recent advances ...

Why new and disruptive medical applications are best driven by ultrasonic transducers. Piezoelectric transducers generate HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound, enabling contactless treatment and ...

Any instrument to survive the trip to and operating conditions on Mars needs to be designed to withstand the most adversary conditions. NASA’s Rover Curiosity has been analyzing mineral probes on the ...

The increasing miniaturization and sophistication of electronic products, ranging from consumer media devices to medical diagnostic tools to defense-related sonar applications, presents a bounty of ...

This is considerably more sophisticated than the circuitry that makes your sneakers flash when you run. Here's what it looks like from the outside: (Source: Linear Technology Corp.) This is a sweet ...

Design your piezoceramic component with this piezo transducer calculator. (Nanowerk News) The PI Piezo Component / Transducer Calculator is an online engineering tool designed to help users quickly ...

Piezoelectric transducers generate HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound, enabling contactless treatment and incisionless surgery, for example treating tumors or neurodegenerative diseases. Why new ...