A piezo sensor attached to the body of an instrument is known as a contact microphone. Piezoelectric sensors especially are used with high frequency sound in ultrasonic transducers for medical imaging and also industrial nondestructive testing (NDT).
Piezo as noted in all formal sources (dictionaries, Wiki, etc) is a Greek root meaning pressure or push. It's combined with some other words to make new nouns and adjectives.
Piezo Wave Therapy, also referred to as Acoustic Compression Therapy, is a revolutionary way to pain relief. This exceptional and medical technique provides successful relief of chronic pain that can help you restore your mobility and strength to damaged ligaments.
The word "piezo" is derived from the Greek word for pressure. In 1880 Jacques and Pierre Curie discovered that pressure generates electrical charges in a number of crystals such as quartz and tourmaline; they called this phenomenon the "piezoelectric effect".
Piezo technology operates on the principle of the piezoelectric effect, which is observed in materials such as quartz and certain ceramics. These materials possess a unique, asymmetric crystalline structure that is key to their functionality.
piezoelectricity, appearance of positive electric charge on one side of certain nonconducting crystals and negative charge on the opposite side when the crystals are subjected to mechanical pressure.
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What is ‘piezo’? A piezo refers to a piezoelectric element/device that generates a voltage when force is applied (piezoelectric effect) or, conversely, is deformed when voltage is supplied (reverse piezoelectric effect). Piezo elements utilize piezo materials that exhibit the piezoelectric effect.