Trends in Electromechanical Transduction

Wednesday, September 11, 1996 4:00 p.m. Dr. Ilene Busch- Vishniac Department of Mechanical Engineering In recent years there has been a growing interest in electromechanical trans­ducers, i.e., sensors and actuators. This increase in interest has been prompted by a number of trends, including: the growing pervasiveness of sensors and in­telligence in devices, the increasingly challenging…