PI designs and manufactures world-class piezoelectric components, piezo motors, piezo actuators, ultrasonic transducers and piezo mechanical devices for a wide range of industrial and medical applications.
Standard and Custom Piezoelectric Transducer Disks
Piezo disc transducers are available in standard, miniature, and custom designs for OEM applications. Standard disc transducers come in sizes from 2 mm to 50 mm diameter (~0.1 inch to 2 inch), and component thickness from 0.2 mm to 4 mm. Typical working and/or resonant frequencies range from 20kHz to 10MHz. Custom sizes, electrode materials and design configurations, and different ultrasound frequency ranges are available for OEM customers.
Piezoelectric Micro Disk Transducers
PZT micro disks come with outer diameters as small as 1 mm and thickness to 0.1 mm. Very tight tolerances, better than +/-30 µm, can be achieved by our production process. The complete range of hard and soft PZT materials for all applications are available for miniaturized components, including, PIC151, PIC255, PIC181. PI Ceramic offers custom solutions to provide maximized performance to your applications.
Ultrasonic Transducer Applications
Ultrasound transducers / transmitters / sensors can be used for sensing technology, such as level sensing, bubble detection, flow rate detection and for air ultrasound. Piezo ultrasonic transducers made of hard PZT materials such as PIC181 are especially efficient in high power ultrasonic transducer applications and SONAR.
High Quality Piezo Materials and Production Process
The production of high-performance piezo transducers requires high quality piezo materials, experience and state-of-the-art production equipment and quality control processes. PI Ceramic has several decades of experience in the design and manufacture of world-class PZT components such as ultrasonic transducers, piezo motors, and piezo mechanical devices for a wide range of industrial and medical applications. Due to our patented solid-state design and ceramic insulation PIC components are regularly used in harsh environments, hard vacuum and extreme magnetic fields. Our piezoelectric actuators were used on the Mars mission due to their excellent long-term reliability and performance.
Applications for Piezoceramic Transducers
The following applications apply to piezo components made of ferroelectric soft PZT material (PIC255):
- Aerial ultrasound, sensor technologies, actuation technologies
The following applications apply to piezo components made of ferroelectric hard PZT material (PIC181):
- High-power ultrasound and SONAR
The following customizations are available for OEMs and high quantity applications:
Custom dimensions, custom piezo materials, custom contacting, electrical connections, and assemblies. Adaptations for special ambient conditions.
