Customer-Specific OEM Solutions for Piezo Ceramics

PI Ceramic has suitable tips and bases with standard dimensions in stock and mounts them prior to delivery. Possible tip designs are flat or spherical tips made e.g. of metal, ceramics, glass or sapphire. Application-specific end pieces can be manufactured on request.

Standard contacts for piezo actuators are 100 mm stranded wires or soldering points. For each piezo element, different wires acc. to the AWG standard are used. Please observe the soldering instructions for each product

PI Ceramic integrates piezo ceramics into the customer’s product. This includes both the electrical contacting of the elements according to customer requirements and the mounting of components provided by the customer, as well as the gluing or the casting of the piezo ceramics.

On request, PI Ceramic modifies the electrode material in accordance with your application. You can select from different noble metals or alloys. Various electrode designs are available. Easier access to the electrodes is provided by wrap-around electrodes. Segmented electrodes determine the expansion behavior of the ceramic element.

Array structures are manufactured on request. The height of the active layers in the actuator determines the operating voltage and achievable displacement and can be varied. The piezoceramic material used determines the dynamics, load capacity and force generation.

With an inner hole a preload can be applied for dynamic operation. In optical applications the inner hole is used as clear aperture.

All piezo actuators can be designed for UHV environments to 10^-9 mbar. In this case, they can be heated out at more than 100 °C and be equipped with suitable stranded wires. For operation in magnetic fields, the electrical contact metals are selected accordingly.