Once its unusual electrical properties were understood, crystalline quartz was sent directly from quarries and mines to factories, where they were turned into piezoelectric devices with no ...

The reverse piezoelectric effect occurs when an electrical field is applied to the crystal. The electric field interacts with the dipole moments within the crystal, causing it to expand or contract, ...

More than one of our readers suggested we highlight this beautifully-shot process documentary about the laborious and precise manufacturing of piezoelectric quartz crystals in the early 1940s.

Advances in materials science stemming from research in South Korea are leading to higher-performance piezoelectric and ...

In a paper published Monday in Nature Geoscience, geologists in Australia write that piezoelectricity is the secret to quartz ...