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 ...

Technical systems must be regularly checked for defects, such as cracks. Up to now, piezo sensors measuring pressure, force or voltage have been used to reliably detect such faults – but only to ...

Earthquake Sound Corporation, a world renowned manufacturer of high-performance loudspeakers and entertainment products, announced that its Quake Series Tactile Transducers with mounting brackets; ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Carbon nanotube assemblies enabled design of a hybrid thermo-electromagnetic sound transducer with unique sound generation features that are not available from conventional ...

Assembled MEMS loudspeaker with a cover chip on top showing the acoustic openings. The MEMS chip with three different micro loudspeakers is glued to a carrier plate ...

Before humans discovered ultrasound for a variety of medical, technical and military applications, nature had perfected it over millions of years for navigation under and above water. Dolphins and ...