The team has much bigger goals than lighting up shoes or bike helmets, though. Researchers develop innovative shoe material that can generate electricity with every step: 'We are excited and ...

This interconversion between mechanical and electrical energy makes piezoelectric crystals highly useful for various sensing and actuation applications. The piezoelectric effect arises from the ...

MEMS, wearable/implantable electronics and bio-tissue therapeutics, the pursuit of piezoelectric biomaterials has become a ...

A “Half &Half” drive step with half amplitude and half resonance period kills overshoot and ringing of piezoelectric ...

Introduction Piezoelectric devices leverage the piezoelectric effect, where certain materials, such as quartz and ceramics, produce an e ...

In this article, we explain the different types of nanogenerators for energy harvesting, how they work, their purpose, and examples of applications where they are used. PENGs use piezoelectric ...

Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging ...

Mechanical resonators, tools that vibrate at precise frequencies, have advanced dramatically over time. Now scaled down to ...