How to Use piezoelectric in a Sentence

piezoelectric

adjective

• When voltages are applied to piezoelectric plates on the stator, the coil spring moves back and forward as a linear slider.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2020
• Woodward swung by its old office and snapped up a pile of piezoelectric disks the company had left behind.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
• The secret to its success is PZT, or lead zirconate titanate, which is piezoelectric.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
• And on the cart, there are three more levels of adjustment: a lever arm on the cart, a voice coil (like a speaker driver) on the lever arm, and a tiny, expanding piezoelectric crystal on the voice coil.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 July 2018
• To create the garment, the team wove a flexible piezoelectric fiber into fabric.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2022
• That bending is called the converse piezoelectric effect.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
• The next issue was linking the piezoelectric actuators to the solar power source.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2019
• In some cases, the piezoelectric effect may result in the appearance of electrical noise.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
• So, the fact that quartz crystals contain an energy that can be exploited via the piezoelectric effect does not imply that we humans should be able to pick up on it.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
• Scientists and some entrepreneurs have toyed with harnessing the piezoelectric effect for years.
  — Scott Carpenter, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• But the lysozyme actually had a piezoelectric effect of up to 6.5 picocoulombs per newton.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• These are non-Stanley (that is, not wire-wound) devices that take advantage of the piezoelectric effect—the ability of a strained crystal to produce a current, and of a current to strain or deform a crystal.
  — Vaclav Smil, Wired, 4 May 2021
• To get the RoboBee in the air, Harvard scientists had to work with things called piezoelectric actuators — strips of ceramic that expand and contract when in contact with an electric field.
  — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 2 May 2013
• The scientists designed the probe to be thin and rigid, using a 2D array of piezoelectric elements (or transducers) stuck between two circuits.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• The researchers found that atomic vibrations—that is, heat—in a ferroelectric can respond to electric fields because of an effect known as piezoelectric strain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023
• The synergy between piezoelectric motion and AI systems involves other matters of life and death.
  — Michael Ashley, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• Sentons relies on a combination of a piezoelectric sensor and a strain gauge to mimic a physical button.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 14 Jan. 2020
• One version of the Model F, sold mainly to financial institutions, had a piezoelectric speaker, controlled by a small dial that allowed a typist to turn up the volume.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• Their original design had piezoelectric motors that could rapidly flap two wings, providing the robot with powered flight.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2019
• The scientists attributed this effect to friction between the grains, which would contradict both the piezoelectric theory and Freund's.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 16 Apr. 2019
• This pump is driven by a thin piezoelectric ceramic plate and requires no EMI, motor, shaft, or any other troublesome mechanisms.
  — Tim Kohut, BGR, 23 June 2021
• The sensors make use of piezoelectric technology, materials that produce an electric charge when squeezed.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2019
• By using a fungus to remove a material called lignin from the cell walls of a small piece of balsa wood, the team of university scientists made the wood vastly more compressible, with a piezoelectric output more than 50 times greater than normal.
  — Scott Carpenter, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Scientists are also developing wearable piezoelectric energy harvesters that can be worn on joints such as the knee or elbow, or in shoes, trousers or underwear.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Washington Post, 9 June 2018
• Their wings, which flap 120 times per second, function using piezoelectric actuators – strips of ceramic that expand and contract when an electric field is applied.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 8 Mar. 2023
• To accomplish this feat, the engineers sandwiched a thin layer of piezoelectric material between two layers of PET plastic.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Apr. 2022
• Most of these paper-thin speakers use piezoelectric material.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Apr. 2022
• The varying electric field deforms the piezoelectric material and generates surface acoustic waves.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2022
• This technique is somewhat similar, Robinson says, to the work that’s been done pairing ultrasound with a piezoelectric crystal, which turns sound-wave vibrations into electricity and can power a tiny neural implant.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Oct. 2023
• Potential The potential of piezoelectric cooling chips in laptops is interesting, especially for those who gravitate toward thinner, lighter form factors.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024