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What is piezoelectricity?

by Camila Lubowitz

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Piezoelectricity is a unique phenomenon in which certain materials, when subjected to mechanical action, generate an electrical charge.

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This discovery was made by Pierre and Jacques Curie in 1880 when they experimented with various crystalline substances such as quartz and segnet salt. They discovered that crystals with polar symmetry were able to produce an electric field when deformed.

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