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Control Costs, Quality and Budget
While piezoelectric components bring a wealth of features and benefits to a wide variety of products in the market today - working with piezoelectric elements can be challenging and problematic for manufacturers that do not have the necessary specialized knowledge to manage the learning curve involved. In addition, the ups and downs of the current economic climate make planning and scaling up operations a very unpredictable endeavor. Let APC International, Ltd. be your in house specialist. Control your costs, quality and budget. WHY USE APC International Services? Because you want to:
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Piezoelectric Powder Characterization
Electroceramic materials are often classified as either hard or soft. Soft materials involve the use of a donor dopant and hard materials require the use of an acceptor dopant. In both cases, the dopant creates changes in the resulting crystal structure and enhances the characteristics of the materials. With the application in mind, a careful examination of material properties and selecting the correct composition is crucial achieve the required performance.
Hard Ceramics:
- Large electromechanical coupling and mechanical quality factors
- Compatible with high mechanical loads and high voltages
- More stable than soft ceramics
- More difficult to depolarize
Soft Ceramics:
- Best at lower temperatures
- Large Permittivity and dielectric dissipation
- Large displacements
- Primarily used in sensing applications
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Compare Hard Ceramic vs. Soft Ceramics
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IWPMA 2011 and 6th Annual Energy Harvesting Workshop
When: August 7-11, 2011
Where: The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center
Roanoke, VA, USA
Event Info: This large gathering of academic and industrial researchers will provide in-depth information on smart materials and their applications. Topics to be addressed will include: Piezo Actuators, Motors, Transducers and Energy Harvesting, Bio-Inspired Autonomous Systems, Micro Batteries, Ultracapacitors, and Structural Health Monitoring. Additional event information here ! Check out the final schedule here!
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15th Annual US-Japan Seminar on Dielectric and Piezoelectric Ceramics
When: November 6-11, 2011
Where: Shiroyama Kanko Hotel
Kagoshima, Japan
Event Info: This is a highly interactive workshop with robust participation from industry. Papers will be solicited in the following areas:
- Basic Science of Dielectric and Piezoelectric Materials
- Dielectric Capacitor Materials and MLCC Technology
- Piezoelectric Materials, Phenomena and Applications
- Microelectromechanical and Nonlinear Dielectric Systems
- Electronic Materials in Energy; Conversion, Harvesting, Photovoltaic, and Photoelectrochemical effects
- Polar semiconductors and interfacial nanoelectronics in oxides and nitrides
- Local Behavior in Ferroelectrics
- Thin Films: Material Science, Applications
More information will follow shortly regarding abstract submission and additional meeting information.
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Electronic Materials and Applications 2012
When: January 18-20, 2012
Where: DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at Sea World
Orlando, FL, USA
Event Info: EMA 2012 is designed for materials scientists, engineers, students, researchers and manufacturers with an interest in renewable energy, innovative hybrid and all electric transportation development, electrical ceramics and advanced microelectronics. Review additional event information here !
Abstracts are due by August 3rd, 2011 Submit
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SPIE Smart Structures / NDE Exhibition 2012
When: March 11-15, 2012
Where: Town and Country resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA
Event Info: A multidisciplinary forum that seeks to advance research in adaptive structures and mechanisms, smart sensors, NDE, civil infrastructure, aerospace systems, energy harvesting and more.
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