The effect of the polymeric reticulation on the thermal stability of the piezoelectricity of a micro-structured PDMS piezo-electret was investigated. This new family of flexible piezoelectric materials with very low Young’s modulus is used for wearable sensors and energy harvester devices. The best thermal stability was obtained for the piezo-electret material made from the ratio 1:10 between t...

We introduce a method for optical trap calibration that is suitable for viscoelastic material. The method is designed for use on experimental setups with two optical tweezers and is based on pulling a trapped particle with one trap while holding it with the other. No piezo stage is needed, and only one optical trap must be movable with galvo mirrors, piezo mirrors, or acousto-optical deflectors...

Piezo-electric ultrasonic actuators offer large static torque and precise rotary motion while avoiding self-motion when un-powered. In this work, a U164-11 ultrasonic piezo-electric module driving an Al2O3 ceramic ring is controlled by a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA to implement a haptic feedback system. The controller supports a runtime-adjustable capture detent resolution to enable the input of disc...

Finite photon lifetimes for light fields in an opto-mechanical cavity impose a bandwidth limit on displacement sensing at mechanical resonance frequencies beyond the loaded cavity photon decay rate. Opto-mechanical modulation efficiency can be enhanced via multi-GHz transduction techniques such as piezo-opto-mechanics at the cost of on-chip integration. In this paper, we present a novel high ba...

We propose a new architecture for an optical fast frequency-hop code division multiple access (FFH-CDMA) system using tunable Bragg gratings. Previously proposed architectures called for a series of in-fiber Bragg gratings, each independently tunable with a piezo-electric device. We propose a system where the entire fiber of multiple Bragg gratings uses one piezo-electric device to tune to a pa...

at the moment determining of the pulse wave main parameters using a piezo sensor is performing using the RC adjustments in the circuit. With the increasing adaptation of the virtual instrumentation it is possible to reduce the RC complexity. The purpose of this work was to determine the piezoelectric actuator transfer function according to the signal of the air pressure sensor using virtual ins...

The speed of ultrasonic motor of piezo-electric type is usually measured using mechanical sensors such as pulse encoders. However, these sensors are costly and bulky. In this paper, a numerical speed estimation approach of a piezo-electric motor (PEM) is implemented using multilayer perception neural network (MLP-NN). The proposed model evaluates rotational speed and load torque based on the am...

The direct measurement of flexoelectric coefficients in epitaxial thin films is an unresolved problem, due to the clamping effect substrates which induces a net strain (and hence parasitic piezoelectricity) addition gradients and flexoelectricity. Herein, we propose demonstrate use van der Waals epitaxy as successful strategy for measuring intrinsic (clamping-free = films. We have made, measure...

We have evaluated the ability of three commercially available deformable mirrors to compensate the aberrations of the eye using a model for aberrations developed by Thibos, Bradley and Hong. The mirrors evaluated were a 37 actuator membrane mirror and 19 actuator piezo mirror (OKO Technologies) and a 35 actuator bimorph mirror (AOptix Inc). For each mirror, Zernike polynomials and typical ocula...

This paper describes the design of a hardware/software system for rendering multi-point, localized vibrotactile feedback in a multi-touch musical interface. A prototype was developed, based on the Madrona Labs Soundplane, which was chosen for it provides easy access to multi-touch data, including force, and its easily expandable layered construction. The proposed solution makes use of several p...