Discovered by the Curie brothers, identify this effect wherein stress applied to a crystal creates an electric potential difference.
This effect is present in animal bones, possibly to regulate growth. It is analogous to the cause of hum in transformers, magnetostriction, while in medical imaging, the most common material used for this effect is lead zirconate titanate. Carbon nanotubes also respond to this effect, for which an especially high quality factor is possessed by quartz. This phenomenon's converse consists of an applied field causing a crystal's dimensions to change. Discovered by the Curie brothers, identify this effect wherein stress applied to a crystal creates an electric potential difference.
This effect is present in animal bones, possibly to regulate growth.
{piezoelectric} (pee-AY-zoh-“electric”) effect [or {piezoelectricity}]