Piezoelectric Crystals Turn Roads into Power Plants

A new design, devised by Haim Abramovich, a developer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, may hold the key to harnessing the power of moving vehicles to create electricity, he says. Piezoelectric crystals could be used to absorb heavy traffic and convert a 1 kilom... [ read more >> ]

A small microphone, made of piezoelectric materials

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A small microphone, made of piezoelectric materials