• DocumentCode
    3629784
  • Title

    Development of novel (2-2) piezoelectric composites by direct-write technique

  • Author

    J. Sun;E.K. Akdogan;M. Vittadello;A. Safari

  • Author_Institution
    The Glenn Howatt Electronic Ceramic Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, 08854, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The Micropen? direct-write technique was used to fabricate ceramic skeletal structures to develop ceramic/polymer (2-2) composites for high frequency transducers in medical imaging applications. Both regular and volume fraction gradient (VFG) patterns were designed. By this approach, transducers were fabricated with 1 cm2 transduction area, operating at 4?5 MHz. The composites had ~30 vol% of ceramic, with thickness ranging 290 to 380 ?m. They had a dielectric loss of 2.0?2.1%, a dielectric constant of 500?670, a d33 of 190, and kt of 56%?61%.
  • Keywords
    "Bioceramics","Ceramics","Frequency","Writing","Polymers","Biomedical transducers","Dielectric losses","Impedance","Sun","Laboratories"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applications of Ferroelectrics, 2008. ISAF 2008. 17th IEEE International Symposium on the
  • ISSN
    1099-4734
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2744-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2375-0448
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISAF.2008.4693826
  • Filename
    4693826