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Reducing Our Lead Footprint: Engineers Discover New Material to Reduce Lead in Electronics
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering have discovered a new lead-free material, bismuth samarium ferrite (BSFO), for use in products ranging from ...
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Squeezed crystals deliver more volts per jolt
Jan 30, 2008 |
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A discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution has opened the door to a new generation of piezoelectric materials that can convert mechanical strain into electricity and vice versa, potentially cutting costs and boosting ...
Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics
Nov 13, 2009 |
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There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...
Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response
May 12, 2008 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have ...
Nanowire generates power by harvesting energy from the environment
Sep 27, 2007 |
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As the sizes of sensor networks and mobile devices shrink toward the microscale, and even nanoscale, there is a growing need for suitable power sources. Because even the tiniest battery is too big to be used in nanoscale ...
Controlling the Vortex: a Novel Way to Create Switches
Jul 03, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Arkansas have found a way to create switching in nanoscale materials, opening the path to using these new properties for memory devices, nanomotors, nanoswitches or nanosensors.
Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity in Piezoelectric Materials
May 14, 2008 |
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A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors. The ...
Strong elasticity size effects in ZnO nanowires
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Recently, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires have drawn major interest because of their semiconducting nature and unique optical and piezoelectric properties. Various applications for ZnO nanowires have been conceived, including ...
Flexible charge pump: New small-scale generator produces alternating current by stretching zinc oxide wires
Nov 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new type of small-scale electric power generator able to produce alternating current through the cyclical stretching and releasing of zinc oxide wires encapsulated ...
Chemists measure copper levels in zinc oxide nanowires
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been the first to measure significant amounts of copper incorporated into zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires during fabrication. The issue is important ...
Backpack straps harvest energy to power electronics
Sep 13, 2007 |
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All that rubbing of your backpack straps on your shoulders may be put to good use, now that researchers have designed a novel type of energy harvesting backpack. The pack has straps made of a piezoelectric ...
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