More than one of our readers suggested we highlight this beautifully-shot process documentary about the laborious and precise manufacturing of piezoelectric quartz crystals in the early 1940s.

Once its unusual electrical properties were understood, crystalline quartz was sent directly from quarries and mines to factories, where they were turned into piezoelectric devices with no ...

Quartz is not only the most abundant piezoelectric mineral on Earth, but it’s also where we find these large gold nuggets. To test their hypothesis, the researchers set up an experiment to mimic ...

The reverse piezoelectric effect occurs when an electrical field is applied to the crystal. The electric field interacts with the dipole moments within the crystal, causing it to expand or contract, ...

It is a unique route to a remote area in the Urals, where visitors are also invited to see tunnels, mines, a piezo quartz and rock crystal mine, to try extracting loose gold and to see an ...

Piezoelectric sensors leverage voltage generation through mechanical stress in non-centrosymmetric materials, such as quartz and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), while triboelectric sensors operate ...

The piezoelectric sensors operate according to the piezoelectric effect: electric polarisation occurs upon mechanical deformation of crystals with polar axes. Depending on the cross section, in quartz ...

The UK synthetic quartz market is witnessing significant growth as demand for high-performance materials in electronics, telecommunications, and industrial applications continues to surge. Synthetic ...