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Issue 5.26

Happy Holidays

Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

As the Holiday Season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our business throughout the year. We value our relationship with our customers, vendors, friends, and associates and look forward to working with each of you in 2014. From the APC family to yours, we wish you and yours a very happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace and prosperity.

 

So that our employees may spend the holidays with their families, APC's offices will be closed Tuesday, December 24, 2013 - Thursday, January 2, 2014.

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Merry Christmas from APC!


    

Looking for that perfect gift for the engineer or scientist in your life?

Look no further than APC's Sale Ceramics where there are many clearance ceramic options available for quick delivery!

 

Available sale ceramics categories we offer include:

  • Disc Benders
  • Piezo Air Transducers
  • Stripe Actuators
  • Piezoelectric Ceramics

If you don't see what you need, contact an APC Sales Representative to discuss your ceramic needs further!

 

  
  
  
  
  
  
Present

Getting a New iPhone, Tablet, or Computer for Christmas?
Don't forget to download or bookmark APC's Piezo Calculator App!

 

The APC Piezo Calculator is an interactive mobile and web app that allows the user to easily calculate:

- Frequency constants

- Resonance frequency

- Capacitance

- Dielectric constants

- Static displacement

- Static voltage

 

The APC Piezo Calculator is preloaded with the material properties of APC's piezoelectric materials and can be customized to use with almost any PZT material.

 

Download your free copy of the APC Piezo Calculator for iPhone or bookmark the WebApp version today!

 

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APC Piezo Calculator iPhone App

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

38th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites

 

When: January 26-31, 2014 

 

Where:

Hilton Daytona Beach Resort and Ocean Center
Daytona Beach Florida, USA
  
Event Info:
ICACC'14 is designed for materials scientists, engineers, researchers and manufacturers, delivering the opportunity to share knowledge and state-of-the-art advancements in materials technology. The American Ceramic Society's Engineering Ceramics Division and ACerS have been organizing this prestigious conference since 1977. There will be technical sessions and an industry exposition.
  
Topics Areas To Include:
  • Structural & Functional Ceramics   
  • Composites
  • Ceramic Coatings
  • Bio-ceramics'
  • Armor Ceramics
  • Emerging Ceramics & Technologies 

Symposia Listing 

 

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SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Exhibition 2014

 

When: March 9-13, 2014

 

Where:

Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA  

 

Event Info: 

A multidisciplinary conference devoted to: energy harvesting, non-destructive evaluation (NDE), damage detection, structural health monitoring (SHM), dielectric elastomers, actuators, shape memory alloys and polymers, magnetorheological fluids, electroactive polymers (EAP), bioinspired and robotic systems, and smart materials, sensors, systems, and networks.

 

Topics Areas To Include:
  • Smart Structures & Materials -Structural Health Monitoring  
  • Piezoelectric Materials  
  • Embedded & Self-diagnostic Sensors
  •  Real-Time NDE
  • Robotic Systems   

More Event Details 

 

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International Society for Optics & Photonics


  

14th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound

When:

April 2-5, 2014  

 

Where:

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA     
  

Event Info:

The ISTU 2014 symposium will be a gathering of esteemed experts from around the world. A broad range of topics will be covered such as Bubble-Enhanced Delivery, Brain Drug Delivery, Cavitation Studies, Clinical Studies, Transducers and Devices, Tumor Delivery and Treatment, and Gene and Cell Therapy. There will be poster and oral sessions.  

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International Society For Therapeutic Ultrasound
 
Caesar's Las Vegas

The 43rd Annual Symposium of the Ultrasonic Industry Association (UIA)

 

When: April 23-25, 2014

 

Where:

Hosted by CSIR at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, Spain

 

Event Info: 

Full day sessions for Industrial/Research and Medical applications on Wednesday and Friday. Thursday morning will feature workshops and special exhibitor

presentations based on the Pecha Kucha format. Exhibitor representatives will still have the opportunity to talk with symposium participants and share their literature during our symposium breaks.

The student and researcher poster session will also be held on Thursday. UIA will again present a cash prize to the winning student poster. Tours and demonstrations at the CSIC Ultrasonics Laboratory will be Thursday afternoon. Thursday evening will conclude with a special event for UIA Symposium participants that will feature a quintessential view of Madrid.

 

  

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Ultrasonic Industry Association

23rd IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF), International Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices (IWATMD), Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Workshop (PFM) 

When:

May 12-16, 2014 

 

Where:

The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA     
  

Event Info:

The 2014 ISAF/IWATMD/PFM joint conference will cover a wide range of topics around ferroelectric & piezoelectric materials and their applications as piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics, electro-optics, capacitors, and memory devices. The synergy that will result from co-hosting ISAF/PFM and IWATMD will enable participants from industry, national laboratories, and academia to gather in a highly interactive environment for technical exchange.

 

 

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  
  
  
  
Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania