This article appeared in Electronic Design and has been published here with permission. Providing power to implanted medical devices is a major challenge. Obvious approaches such as using a ...

Engineers are used to dealing with diverse “effects” ranging from well-known to lesser-known ones. In the former category, for instance, there’s the piezoelectric effect and the skin effect; in the ...

Researchers at the Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metal Physics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, improved the properties of a magnetostrictive material (a compound ...

Close quarters can make the specification process tricky for magnetostrictive sensors that have no external housings. MTS System Corp. Cary, N.C. Magnetostriction as a positionsensing technique has ...

To wirelessly power an implanted neural stimulator, a research team combined materials to synergistically use the magnetorestrictive and piezoelectric effects. Providing power to implanted medical ...