WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Steve Son, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, has received a $7.5 million grant by the Air Force Office ...

Vibration control using piezoelectric materials has emerged as a critical research area with significant implications for aerospace, mechanical engineering, and structural systems. Piezoelectric ...

Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale electromechanical devices that ...

Enhanced performance of materials is one of the cornerstones of materials engineering. Such enhancements are often obtained by forming known materials in new ways that allow exceptional properties to ...

The increasing miniaturization and sophistication of electronic products, ranging from consumer media devices to medical diagnostic tools to defense-related sonar applications, presents a bounty of ...