How to Use piezoelectric in a Sentence

piezoelectric

adjective
  • 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
  • In the piezoelectric inkjet nozzle, the bending of the bimorph pushes ink out of the orifice.
    — Phillip W. Barth, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2024
  • When voltages are applied to piezoelectric plates on the stator, the coil spring moves back and forward as a linear slider.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2020
  • To create the garment, the team wove a flexible piezoelectric fiber into fabric.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Scientists and some entrepreneurs have toyed with harnessing the piezoelectric effect for years.
    — Scott Carpenter, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • In some cases, the piezoelectric effect may result in the appearance of electrical noise.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
  • The next issue was linking the piezoelectric actuators to the solar power source.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2019
  • Most of these paper-thin speakers use piezoelectric material.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The secret to its success is PZT, or lead zirconate titanate, which is piezoelectric.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • Why ice confused scientists For years, scientists wondered why ice was not piezoelectric.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Sentons relies on a combination of a piezoelectric sensor and a strain gauge to mimic a physical button.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The sensors make use of piezoelectric technology, materials that produce an electric charge when squeezed.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2019
  • 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
  • Piezoelectric approach gains ground To move beyond those limits, the research team explored piezoelectric resonators.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The synergy between piezoelectric motion and AI systems involves other matters of life and death.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes, 18 May 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
  • The varying electric field deforms the piezoelectric material and generates surface acoustic waves.
    — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2022
  • 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 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
  • Its leadless pacemaker is packed into a capsule containing a piezoelectric energy harvester—a pendulum that swings through heartbeats, blood flow, and vibrations.
    — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • Recall the Columbia chips use a piezoelectric transducer to communicate with an ultrasound machine.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2021
  • 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
  • At its center, a silicon plate topped with a piezoelectric film vibrates at its natural frequencies, while nearby electronic circuitry measures those vibrations.
    — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The technology, known as piezoelectric energy harvesting, relies on materials that produce current when flexed.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Piezoelectric fibers would gather electrical charges from even the smallest movements during flight, storing the energy generated in battery panels located in the fuselage.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 22 May 2017
  • 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

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