Designs with Piezo-ceramics

Versatile Design for Piezo-ceramic Components

The applications for piezo-ceramic components and the materials precisely tuned to them are as varied as the options available for their design.

Piezo-ceramic components

Actuators

Piezo-ceramic tapes

Shapes Typical dimensions1)

1) Reference values which may be higher or lower depending on customer specifications. It is not possible to combine extreme values.

2) In some resonant applications it has become standard practice to specify the resonance frequency (defined via the frequency constant) instead of a mechanical dimension.
Example: Disc made of SONOX® P4 Ø 20 mm ± 0.2 mm x 1 MHz ± 10 %. 1 MHz is the resonance frequency of the thickness-mode oscillation of the disc, corresponding to a disc thickness of approximately 1 mm.
Rings and discs Diameter
Thickness		 5 mm – 120 mm
0.2 – 30 mm
Cylinders Diameter
height		 5 mm – 120 mm
< 30 mm
Rectangular plates Length
Width
Height		 3 mm – 120 mm
2 mm – 120 mm
0.2 mm – 30 mm
Monolithic multilayer actuators Length
Width
Height
Number of ceramic layers		 5 mm – 10 mm
2 mm – 10 mm
10 mm – 40 mm
100 – 400
Semispherical bodies Radius up to approx. 25 mm
Standard tolerances ± 1 % of the respective dimension
± 0.05 mm thickness tolerance on ground products
± 0.1 mm on unmachined products not exceeding 10 mm in thickness
± 10 % in case of specified resonance frequency2)

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