What is the Piezoelectric Effect? (.PDF Download)

Sept. 16, 2016

Piezoelectricity was discovered by two French scientists’ brothers, Jacques and Pierre Curie, in 1880. They found out about piezoelectricity after first realizing that pressure applied to quartz or even some certain crystals creates an electrical charge in that certain material.1 They later referred to that strange and scientific phenomenon as the piezoelectric effect...

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