Piezoelectric film can serve as a highly reliable low-cost alternative to more expensive sensors when space is at a premium Piezoelectric film is a transducer technology with unique capabilities and ...

Accelerometers are used in instrumentation applications to measure a change in velocity with respect to time or an inclination (the angle between an object’s vertical axis and a line perpendicular to ...

To sense shock, vibration, and/or linear motion, accelerometers are beginning to appear in a broad range of new applications. Common types of accelerometers for these applications�various ...

Vesper, a MEMS supplier of piezoelectric sensors, has launched the VA1210, Vesper’s 2nd generation analogue piezoelectric smart voice accelerometer. The VA1210 offers higher sensitivity (+17 dB) and ...

A new, inexpensive method to 'print' large-scale sheets of two dimensional (2D) piezoelectric material offers tremendous opportunity for new piezo-sensors and energy harvesting. Researchers have ...

A novel three-axis accelerometer is being developed by microsensors specialist European Technology for Business (ETB). The planar device uses advanced processing to integrate the piezoelectric ...

Industries and R&D sites depend on sensors to measure, monitor and analyze vibrations. Unfortunately, the best ways to get accurate and repeatable vibration data are not clear to many engineers; they ...