This simple STM setup utilises a piezoelectric actuator constructed by deliberately cutting a piezo speaker into four quadrants. With individual drive wires attached to the four quadrants.

[Dan] achieves that by using a normal piezo disk. These disks are used as speakers and buzzers in everything from smoke detectors to greeting cards, so they’re common and cheap. [Dan] cut his ...

Same Sky has added to its portfolio of disc-shaped piezoelectric elements, with devices from 12 to 35mm in diameter and down to 0.12mm thick. Picking the 12mm x 0.12mm CEB-12012-L100 as an example, it ...

Here I will discuss two examples – a new kind of piezoelectric motor, and ‘robo-buzzers’ for studying buzz-pollination: In the sub-gram regime, piezoelectric actuation can be preferable to ...