Piezoelectric Materials

It’s a Small World – Designing Piezoelectric Acoustic Transducers as Devices Miniaturize, Part 1

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The increasing miniaturization and sophistication of electronic products–ranging from consumer media devices, to medical diagnostic tools, to defense-related sonar applications–presents a bounty of utility and ease for consumers, and an ongoing challenge for design engineers. These seemingly disparate products (audio/mobile device speakers, certain non-invasive medical devices and sonar arrays) share in common a reliance on …

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It’s a Small World – Designing Piezoelectric Acoustic Transducers as Devices Miniaturize, Part 2

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In Part 1, we provided a basic introduction to Piezoelectric materials. In this blog, we will take a look at specific products that present a challenge for design engineers due to the need for increased output within smaller devices. Mics and Speakers Piezoelectric materials are used extensively in acoustics. Microphones contain piezoelectric crystals that convert …

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