Twents bedrijf SolMateS maakt beweging op een computerchip mogelijk en ontvangt investering van € 2 miljoen voor revolutie in chipindustrie.

Some great highlights of the latest Aito releases.
1. Haptic feedback paper approved for the CHI conference
2. Ultra low power chip released
3. Getinge sterilization releases product with Aito piezo touch

Tweede spreker aan het minisymposium zal zijn de heer Jan Peters van Applied Piëzo, een instituut dat de toegang tot piëzo technologie door de industrie bevordert. Hij zal een toelichting geven over de jongste onderzoekresultaten op dit gebied.

Titel lezing:
Toepassing van piëzo elektrische materialen

Korte beschrijving:
Door de unieke eigenschappen van piëzo elektrische materialen zijn er zeer veel toepassingsmogelijkheden die zonder dat wij ons hiervan bewust zijn dagelijks door ons worden gebruikt. Applied Piezo zet zich in om nieuwe toepassingen en piëzo elektrische materialen mogelijk te maken. In de lezing wordt een overzicht gegeven van de toepassingsmogelijkheden voor ontwerpers en nieuwste ontwikkelingen op het gebied van piëzo elektrische materialen.

06 Dec 2010,
SolMateS has won the Young Technology Award 2010! Beside this first prize of 5000 euro, SolMateS also won the public price of 1000 euro. Therefore SolMates wants to thank the public for their vote.

 On wednesday the 1st of december 2010 Applied Piezo chairman Jan Peters presented the first copy of a new Applied Piezo book to the director of the Mikrocentrum Geert Hellings. The book "The hidden use of piezo technology in applications all around us" was written to show the everyday use of piezo applications and the importance of further development of this technology as supported by the Applied Piezo foundation. Geert Hellings and the Mikrocentrum were one of the first organizations supporting Applied Piezo at the start 6 years ago.

We are pleased that Huub Janssen from Janssen Precision engineering has won the Prof. Rien Koster price for precision technology. Our new participant has won the price from the Dutch Society for Precision Engineering (DSPE) for the high level of all of his work on precision engineering. More information can be found here 

Piezoelectric bimorph bender actuators find application number of areas, ranging from automotive to health care. High voltage operation in harsh environments poses ever more stringent demands on functionality and lifetime. In these high performance benders, the trade-off between functionality and lifetime becomes of increasing importance, and a model-based understanding is imperative for further tailoring actuator performance....

We report an investigation into factors limiting the functional lifetime of multilayer piezoceramic actuators. The study consists of a combination of lifetime experiments by means of an accelerated lifetime test, inspection of the actuator microstructure at different stages of the accelerated lifetime test, and numerical simulation of the displacements and mechanical stresses that arise during actuator performance...

Electroceramics IX conference in Manchester
Professor Dave H.A. Blank is an invited speaker on the Electroceramics IX conference in Manchester. He will be speaking about Conducting and magnetic interfaces in complex oxides...