Questions tagged [piezoelectricity]
A physical effect that translates mechanical stress to generated voltage. It is a reciprocal effect, so the application of voltage can induce stress/strain. Used for speakers/microphones, load cells to measure weigh and most commonly in strikers for igniting BBQ's and lighters. A common material the exhibits this effect is quartz.
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piezo ultrasonic atomizer control and monitor quantitatively [closed]
Can I control the flow rate or droplet size of water or make it pulsating flow not continuous in a piezo ultrasonic atomizer?
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Designing a Charge Amplifier Circuit in PSpice for Piezoelectric Sensor
I'm new to using OrCAD PSPICE 16.6 and need some help. I'm trying to design a charge amplifier for a piezo sensor before building the actual circuit. I've chosen a VSIN source as my input to represent ...
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Generating cold plasma using a Piezo Transformer
I am trying to generate cold plasma using a multi layer piezo transformer.
My understanding was that it was as simple as applying a 15 Vpp to the transformer, but it did not work.
I was trying to ...
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Piezoelectric circuit behaviour
I am trying to study the piezoelectric material behaviour using S-Edit. Here, the force acting on the piezoelectric material is mapped to current. In the waveform viewer, I can see the current graph (...
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Would noise from MLCCs be cancelled out if adjacent capacitors had different polarity?
I have a DC voltage with a high ripple current at 10 kHz which produces an audible noise from the MLCCs on the PCB. I can't change the frequency and I need to stick to MLCC class II capacitors for ...
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What type of signal conditioning is needed for this type of sensor?
Regarding a piezo sensor like this one, if I want to read the output by an ADC does it require a buffer, a instrumentation amplifier or a type of interface?
I don't know the output impedance of it and ...
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Generating 50-300 Hz oscillations with piezoelectric stacks
I am currently working on a project that prompts me to find/design sources of mechanical oscillations, similar to the ones generated by a motor with an eccentric load used in mobile phones and similar ...
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Difference between Pierce and Colpitts oscillators
Can someone tell me what the exact differences are between the Pierce and the Colpitts oscillator?
I've read in wikipedia that the Pierce oscillator is a derivative of the Colpitts oscillator, but I ...
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How to figure out the current drawn by a 40kHz ultrasonic transducer?
I have some 40kHz ultrasonic transducers (the same type as which you find in the common Arduino ultrasonic distance sensors.) All information comparable to a datasheet I got was:
I don't get how to ...
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Piezoelectric Harvester Circuitry
Can anyone tell me what type of circuit is used in this piezoelectric harvester? And if possible, could you also provide a diagram of it when connected to battery?
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Difference between Electric Energy and Electric Signal
Gas lighter and phonograph are two applications of direct piezoelectricity. In the first one, we have electric energy as an output and in the second we get electric signal as an output. But, what's ...
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Increase voltage of a 1.6MHz frequency
I have a digital signal with voltage of 3V and frequency of 1.6MHz. How can I increase voltage of this signal to 36V? The signal is generated by PWM feature of esp32.
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I'm trying to use this ...
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Piezo contact mic into MacBook air
I'm wiring an external piezo as contact mic to the TRRS 3.5 jack of a MacBook Air.
I'm following the instructions on this post:
Piezo contact mic into iMac - avoid signal spikes
However, the answer to ...
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How does direct piezoelectric effect convert mechanical energy into electrical energy?
I am studying direct piezoelectric effect and if I understand it well the idea of direct is that if we apply force in an hexagonal cell unit for example, we create a polarisation, but how do we ...
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Can I increase the inductive component stored-energy of a Piezo Buzzer?
In this example of a model for a piezo element, there is an inductive component (I think this is a quartz crystal model -- it should not matter for the question. This graphic was also used here and ...
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Can I safely turn a standard computer PSU into a 220VAC to 36VDC converter?
I'm a mostly electronics noob, and wanting to be safe. I am wanting to build my own fog machine, using some piezoelectric discs that I believe work best with 36v (I'm guessing this from looking at ...
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Mimicking the output of a piezo sensor with a membrane potentiometer
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I'm trying to use an electronic drum pedal as an electronic drum trigger. My specific e-drum unit has only one pedal input, so I need to repurpose a drum trigger input in order to use more ...
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Do almost all modern smartphones use piezoelectric speakers?
Do almost all modern smartphones use piezoelectric speakers for both the ear speaker and the speakerphone speaker?
The reason I ask is because I rinsed off my waterproof smartphone (which I've done ...
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Piezoelectricity question
If I have a piezoelectric crystal and apply pressure to it , it will be deformed and a voltage between its 2 ends will be generated.
Is the voltage generated due to its deformation or due to the ...
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What are the advantages and advantages of ceramic and Langevin transducers for ultrasonic cleaners?
I have an old large ultrasonic cleaner with 5 ceramic piezo electric transducers (pictured below) epoxied to its tank's underside. They use around 40W of power each.
Newer ultrasonic cleaners, ...
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Help with piezoelectric circuit [closed]
I connected three piezoelectric sensors to a rectifier which was further connected to a capacitor (100µF). I kept hitting the sensors for some time, and measured the voltage across the capacitor using ...
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Power produced by a piezoelectric transducer
When we increase the size of the piezoelectric transducer will this increase the output too?
For example, a small piezoelectric disc produces 2V and makes a small LED bulb flicker or light for just a ...
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What is being depicted in these piezoelectricity circuit diagrams?
I am currently studying Ultrasonic transducers – Materials and design for sensors, actuators and medical applications by Kentaro Nakamura. Chapter 1.2.2 Piezoelectricity says the following:
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How would you apply high voltage on a piece of dielectric making sure breakdown does not occur?
Say you have a piece of dielectric with a breakdown electric field, BDE. For some experimental requirement you have to apply an electric field, E > BDE, across the piece of dielectric without ...
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Ceramic pressure measurement - capacitive or piezoelectrical?
Context: I'm writing about an old industrial training facility used for a petrochemical process.
In this training facility, there is a 3-phase separator. On that separator is a pressure measurement. ...
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The piezoelectric effect in natural quartz crystals
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I have recently started doing a lot of research on the piezoelectric effect with the hopes of gaining a better understanding of the topic. When I can I like to do experiments on top of ...
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Driving piezo scanner tubes using the driven internal electrode configuration
I'm planning on doing a project involving a piezo tube scanner (PTS). The PTS will be used for 3 axis manipulation of a sharp needle. PiezoDrive has a few scanners and some info on how to use them. ...
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Is it possible to drive a power piezoelectric in lower frequency than its own frequency?
I am driving a piezo transducer simply by an inductor series with piezo.
the resonant frequency of the piezo is about 40KHz and I designed a 20KHz transducer.
I'm giving a pulse voltage (using a class ...
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What happens when DC is applied to a piezo crystal?
I've heard that when an alternating current is passed through a piezo crystal it vibrates. But what happens if a direct current is passed through the crystal? I'm assuming depending on the direction ...
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Do active PZT audio buzzers (with built-in driver) create dangerous spikes on power supply?
I am planning to add a active piezo element audio buzzer with built-in driver (BESTAR BPT-14X or LOUDITY LD-BZEL-PB04-1408 ) to my recent quite complex MCU project.
These buzzers come with built in ...
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Why does the output voltage after full bridge drop so many?
recently I am researching the piezoelectric transducer (PET), which can convert the mechanical energy into electricity. And I found a strange phenomenon. I used the 10MΩ probe of oscilloscope to ...
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How to drive a piezo transducer
I am looking to drive a piezo transducer at its resonant frequency (20kHz) to generate sound waves. I am doing an application similar to sonar technology.
I was looking into how to drive the ...
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Basic of a charged piezo : pC/G, mV/G, Signal analysis
This is the first time I use a High impedance piezo sensor and the problems went pretty quickly.
Here is the piezo I used :
Manufacturer part number : PKGS-00GXP1-R
Rating : 0.35pC/G (+/- 15%)
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Piezoelectric dilemma!
I am a high school student and have no experience with piezoelectricity but I’m working on a piezoelectric shoe.
My plan, initially, was to connect piezoelectric transducers in parallel and solder ...
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Can I charge a lipo battery using piezoeletric energy harvesting?
I use a 9V 800mAh lipo Okcell battery to power my ESP8266 ESP-01 with a voltage regulator to change it to 3.3V. I use the ESP to detect the voltage peak from a piezoelectric when someone is running to ...
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Piezoelectric showing strange, slowly fluctuating periodic background noise
We are trying to detect mice's licking using a piezoelectric attached to a metal spout tube that delivers water.
It's kind of working in the sense that we can detect licking, but it suffers from ...
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Very confused regarding parallel resistors limiting current
I'm an electronics noob trying to understand this Arduino circuit below.
Having very cursory knowledge of electronics, I'm extremely confused by this statement I took from the Arduino Knock example:
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What is equivalent of C0 in mechanical system?
In this picture write all their equivalent Body in mechanical system and electrical circuit for a piezoelectric. What is equivalent of C0 in mechanical system?
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What is the relation between resonance frequency and piezoelectric charge coefficient?
We know that the maximum power is lost at the resonant frequency,where the impedance is minimal. On the other hand, when the impedance is minimized, the charge coefficient is maximized. In resonance ...
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Piezo electric water vaporizer [closed]
I'm interested in a module that I've seen today and is a cold water vaporizer. I turns water to steam without heating it.
Anyways this module needs kind of oscillating circuit to work properly and ...
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uC-adjustable harmonic oscillator circuit @100W
I'm looking for a circuit that performs a harmonic oscillation while its resonance frequency can be controlled with a microcontroller (preferably via an analog signal). The circuit has to drive a set ...
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Smart tires idea: How to measure electrical output of piezo arrays? [closed]
I had an idea where you take piezoelectric material and insert it into/on tires (or tire sleeve), suspension components, bushings etc of automobiles and then store the electric energy generated to ...
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When oscillating a piezo, should I use AC or DC square wave?
I have several piezoelectric stacks that I am trying to get to shake/oscillate. An example of what I mean by piezoelectric stack is something like Thorlabs PA3CEW.
The drive voltage is specified as ...
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Is it possible to power a MCU with a button press / touch? [closed]
I hope to use a piezoelectric button to harvest and produce a sufficient energy burst to power ON and bootup a MSP430 for a few ms enough to update a simple data structure (e.g. two integers stored in ...
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Should a piezoelectric sensor be modeled as a voltage or current source?
I know that one can do source transformation between current and voltage source. But take a DC power supply, and we usually model it as a voltage source because the voltage is constant even the load ...
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Read data from strain-gauge Labjack, Arduino
I am working on a project where we have to record breathing data. For that we ordered a LabJack U3-LV along a with an amplifier (datasheet) and a belt which is some kind of strain gauge I think. We ...
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quartz crystal oscillator applied voltage
I know that in quartz watches a quartz crystal is used to keep time by counting it's vibrations, caused by the voltage applied to it.
I don't understand if this voltage is DC or AC:
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How can I change a DC current to a 1.7/2.4 MHz AC current for piezoelectric device
I would like to start by saying my experience in electronics is very limited and I will include pictures of everything. I am, however, trying to assemble a device which puts a current through a ...
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Replacing a magnetic speaker with a non-magnetic one
I need to mount a speaker next to a magnetic compass. Any suggestions?
I have a becker radio which comes with a traditional 4 ohm moving coil magnetic speaker. Due to space limitations I don't really ...
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Charge Measurement for Piezoelectric Sensor
I want to measure the charge displaced by a force acting on a piezoelectric sensor. The problem is I don't know the sensor so I have no idea how big the current generated by the sensor may be nor what ...
