piezoelectric cantilever Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:31:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Discovery Makes Piezoelectric Materials 25% More Efficient https://www.greenoptimistic.com/npl-uk-piezoelectric-discovery-20120307/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/npl-uk-piezoelectric-discovery-20120307/#respond Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:31:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=23108 A new project at National Physical Laboratory in the UK aims to develop a much more efficient piezoelectric energy harvester. They found a serious glitch in current piezo devices that keeps them from giving their best at converting mechanical stress to electricity. Despite the fact that the powers outputted by piezoelectric devices are small (per […]

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