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The Piezo Institute is the hub of European expertise and experience in piezoelectric materials and devices. It was launched in 2008 by the multidisciplinary EC-funded MIND consortium of academic researchers and leading European companies. In the exciting field of piezoelectric materials and devices, the Piezo Institute is an independent source of:

  • Advice and expertise
  • Education and training
  • Research
  • Project management


Piezoelectric materials are effective as sensors, actuators and transducers used in industries including:

  • Healthcare
  • Transport
  • Environmental monitoring


The institute’s expertise includes ferroelectricity, electrostriction and pyroelectricity in materials including ceramics, single crystals, polymers and composites. Founding members have skills in:

  • Chemistry and process engineering
  • Solid-state physics
  • Materials characterisation and measurement science
  • Micro and nano technology
  • MEMS
  • Numerical and finite element modelling
  • Design and manufacture of devices

 
News in brief
 
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13 Dec 2011
PI member announced as the new Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Applied Ceramics

29 Nov 2011
PI member - new route to synthesis KNN published

29 Sep 2011
Remote control relies on bends and twists to operate

12 Sep 2011
Mobile phones could soon be 'powered by walking'

12 Sep 2011
Development of self charging batteries from ambient vibration

 
 
Events
 
 

2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
April 9 - April 13, 2012
Moscone West Convention Center - San Francisco, California

2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit. Starting with just four symposia in 1983, the MRS Spring Meeting ...

2nd TYC WORKSHOP & TUTORIAL ON ENERGY MATERIALS
6-8 June 2012
King’s College London, London, UK

This workshop will bring together experimentalists, theorists and computational scientists working ...

Actuator 12
18-20 June 2012
Bremen, Germany

International conference and exhibition on new actuators and drive systems.

Actuators 2012, the ...


 
 
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