As cell phones and other handheld devices compete for the attention of increasingly sophisticated users, audio quality as well as new functionality becomes critical to the devices' success. Needing ...

Like all ceramics, piezo ceramics are brittle materials that are well suited to handling compressive loads but are highly sensitive to bending, shear and tensile loads. A number of mechanical ...

The sound meter was built with piezoelectric buzzer in reverse, as a microphone which makes a single transistor amplifier demonstrate its functionality. This leads the piezoelectric element to make ...

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 ...

Murata Electronics has designed what it claims is the world’s first super tweeter drivers that are able to improve the total sound of a speaker and not just reproduce high frequencies, as with ...

Sporting a form-factor consistent with common piezo indicators, but generating roughly double the sound pressure, is how the company characterizes the KPI-800 family. The new 26-mm diameter by 22-mm ...