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nanopiezotronics defined
Room 302, Hynes convention centre
Room 302 was the venue for Zhong Lin Wang’s explanation of nanopiezotronics - the use of piezoelectric nanowires in electronics.
Wang showed the audience how semiconducting nanowires can be configured to form a piezoelectric diode, a humidity sensor, a piezoelectric transistor and a nanogenerator. What’s more, if you make the nanowire out of CdS then the nanogenerator becomes light sensitive, providing power only when illuminated.
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