(Nanowerk Spotlight) Carbon nanotube assemblies enabled design of a hybrid thermo-electromagnetic sound transducer with unique sound generation features that are not available from conventional ...

Like all ceramics, piezo ceramics are brittle materials that are well suited to handling compressive loads but are highly sensitive to bending, shear and tensile loads. A number of mechanical ...

As cell phones and other handheld devices compete for the attention of increasingly sophisticated users, audio quality as well as new functionality becomes critical to the devices' success. Needing ...

Assembled MEMS loudspeaker with a cover chip on top showing the acoustic openings. The MEMS chip with three different micro loudspeakers is glued to a carrier plate ...

There is an audio revolution on the horizon, says Robb Zimmerman, as engineers are revisiting the coil-based transducer design. With the 100th anniversary of the dynamic driver speaker’s invention ...

Earthquake Sound Corporation, a world renowned manufacturer of high-performance loudspeakers and entertainment products, announced that its Quake Series Tactile Transducers with mounting brackets; ...

Before humans discovered ultrasound for a variety of medical, technical and military applications, nature had perfected it over millions of years for navigation under and above water. Dolphins and ...

When designing a low-cost device where pennies count, we need a creative and inexpensive way for the device to communicate effectively with the user. Using sound as output requires comparatively few ...