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A PZT type piezoceramic material with high planar coupling factor used for a miniature bimorph ventilator

C. MICLEA1,* , A. IUGA1, C. TANASOIU1, L. AMARANDE1, M. CIOANGHER1, C. T. MICLEA2

Affiliation

  1. National Institute for Materials Physics, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
  2. Hyperon University, Faculty of Physics, Str. Calarasilor 169, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

New PZT type ceramic materials, doped with Ni, were prepared by the usual solid state reaction. The best composition proved to be the one containing 6% atomic Ni and having the following chemical formula: Pb0.95Bi0.03Nb0.02Zr0.51Ti0.43Ni0.06O3. Rectangular samples of this powder were pressed and sintered at 1200 oC for 4 hours and then it was cut in thin slices used to construct an efficient bimorph type ventilator to be used in miniaturized devices for cooling. Miniature ventilators made of PZT ceramics are preferred due to their smallness, high electromechanical efficiency and lack of rotating parts and last but not least of contiguous electrical contacts. We made such a device by using two thin ceramic PZT plates of the material with the best piezoelectric properties, assembled in a flexural oscillator through a proper bimorph association. The emerging doublet behaves itself very much like a bimetal system and possesses a good developed flexural mode. Attaching a metallic elastic plate to the bimorph produces a highly efficient miniature ventilator. A theoretical quantitative study of this flexural bimorph system with elastic plate attached was proposed..

Keywords

PZT, Powder solid state reaction, Piezoelectric properties, Bimorph transducer.

Submitted at: Nov. 14, 2006
Accepted at: May 15, 2007

Citation

C. MICLEA, A. IUGA, C. TANASOIU, L. AMARANDE, M. CIOANGHER, C. T. MICLEA, A PZT type piezoceramic material with high planar coupling factor used for a miniature bimorph ventilator, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 9, Iss. 5, pp. 1511-1515 (2007)