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Small changes can dramatically boost efficacy of piezoceramics
"In all lead-free piezoceramics, if we can reduce oxygen vacancies, we can increase the longitudinal strain to 1% or higher, as we demonstrated in PZT," he adds. His team recently discovered that ...
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AFMs spell it out, terahertz emission from PZT nanotubes, a close look at catalysts, making loudspeakers with nanotubes, and more
PZT has several characteristics of a good terahertz ... but tend to break under extreme strain. Now Andrew Minor at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley ...