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Medical Applications of Ultrasonic Transducers
Technology has changed how we live, work and play. The healthcare industry is a prime example of how technology changes lives.
Medical technology continues to offer surprising advances in extending patients’ lives and providing a superior quality of life. One of the technologies that’s gained primary importance in providing these life-altering
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The Top Uses of Piezoelectricity in Everyday Applications
What do cell phones, diesel fuel injectors, acoustic guitar pickups, grill igniters, ultrasonic transducers, vibration sensors, certain printers, and musical greeting cards all have in common? Besides being electronic devices, all of these applications utilize piezoelectricity in some way. Let’s explore how piezoelectricity works and look at some applications of piezoelectric
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Download the APC Piezo Property Calculator
APC International, Ltd. has announced the release of its APCPiezoCalc iPhone and iPad app. The APCPiezoCalc is an interactive mobile application that allows the user to easily calculate the frequency constant, resonance frequency, capacitance, dielectric constant, static displacement, and static voltage of many piezoelectric ceramic elements. To make calculations easier,
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APC Ceramic used in RPI Data Transmission Research Project
Great new use of piezoelectric ceramics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute! Doctoral student Tristan Lawry has developed a way to transmit large quantities of data and power wirelessly thorough thick metal walls using APC's piezoelectric ceramics. Tristan's research has many applications in the navel industry where one might want to transmit
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Piezoelectric Transducers Unlock New Doors
According to Innovation News Daily, AT&T Labs has developed a system using piezoelectric transducers that allows a person to unlock a door just by touching the door’s handle. The system, developed by AT&T Labs, requires two piezoelectric transducers. Piezoelectric transducers convert electrical energy into vibrational mechanical energy. Additionally, because
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Apple uses piezo sensor technology in new patent
Interesting new stuff from Apple! According to AppledInsider.com:
A recently published patent application from Apple reveals the company has looked into a flat keyboard that would detect acoustic pulses from users' taps instead of relying on physical key presses. (1)
Apple’s new keyboard apparently relies on both a captive touch sensor and
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APC Piezo Transducers in Impulse Devices’ System
Using American Piezo's piezoelectric transducers Impulse Devices, Inc. has developed a solution to overcome destructive interference patterns of transducer resonance with the overall system resonance in an inertial cavitation application. With their solution, Impulse Devices has created a turnkey acoustic resonating system utilizing the consistency and quality of the APCI
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