What is "piezoelectric"

Usage examples of "piezoelectric".

He talked endlessly about his super polymer that when super cooled allowed for state-of-the-art piezoelectric micromotion control.

Most of all, however, finding a location depended on the experience of the Molt who picked his way across the interface of mind and piezoelectric al flux.

Each shell split in the air into hundreds of bomblets which in turn burst on the next thing they touched--rock, leaf, or the face of a Molt sighting down the barrel of his power gun The sea of miniature blasts created a mist of glass-fiber shrapnel devouring life in all its forms above the microscopic--but without significantly changing the piezoelectric al constant of the rock on which the autochthons homed.

A sudden, startling white-light image showed living, breathing Siamese twins, impossibly transected to expose raw pink-and-gray muscles working side-by-side with shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric actuators, flesher and gleisner anatomies interpenetrating.

The piping of the piezoelectric indicators, showing the constant change in stresses in the ribs and girders of the hull, died away.

Stooping, he went twenty feet up the tunnel, then fished a piezoelectric sensor from his satchel and drove it into the calcified earth.

Shock waves would rush up the length of the bridgehead as it hit the surface, but piezoelectric crystal boundaries would gradually bleed energy from the shock waves, energy which could be redirected into weapons systems.

Polyvinylidene difluoride was a special polymer in that respect—carbon atoms were linked to hydrogen and fluorine atoms in such a way that the resulting substance was even more piezoelectric than quartz.