voltage
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The voltage appeared consistently and repeatedly, providing strong evidence that the diamond membrane itself was producing a piezoelectric response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
This creates a difference in electrical potential between the upper and lower surfaces of the membrane, producing the observed voltage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Utility company Consolidated Edison has detected stray voltage at the site weeks after the death, a possible cause for the horse’s sudden flight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The shorter the voltage has to travel, the faster and more efficient the charge can be, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Through von Rumpel’s mind sail visions of the Fiihrermuseum, glittering cases, bowers beneath pillars, jewels behind glass— and something else too: a faint power, like a low voltage, coming ofF the stone.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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BelGaN, based in Belgium, specialized in making gallium nitride semiconductors, which allow for higher voltages compared with silicon-based chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
It’s called a solid-state transformer, and it’s designed to convert power to different voltages.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The innovation focuses on a key function in electronics: converting high voltages into the lower levels required by computing hardware.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026
Thanks to electroencephalography, researchers can even link slow-wave sleep to a process of synchronous changes in electrical voltages in thousands of neurons, known as up and down states.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
More precisely, it appeared to solve the problem of how to produce high-energy particles without applying high voltages.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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