Advanced piezoceramic subsystems and components with new piezo transducer options for sensing or ultrasound applications.
PI Ceramic is a subsidiary company of precision motion control specialist PI. In 2022, PI Ceramic celebrated its 30th anniversary and continues to offer world-class miniaturized and standard piezoceramic products such as piezo ring, piezo benders and micro piezo tubes. Piezo parts are crucial for markets like 3D printing, 3D digital printing, medical engineers, and industrial automation. PI Ceramic (PIC), a subsidiary to PI (Physik Instrumente), was founded in 1992. It has a small staff of experts in the field piezoceramics and dielectric materials. They bring decades of experience in research, design and production.
Continuous Growth, 3rd Expansion
Two years after their inception, PI Ceramic moved to a new building that was designed specifically for their needs. The company grew due to the constant global demand for high-performance piezoceramic actuators, transducers and motors manufactured at PIC. In 2020, the company expanded to more than 80,000 square foot of manufacturing and office space.
NASA: Compact Piezo Actuators That Survive 100 Billillion Cycles without Failures
PIC invented a new piezo material in the early 2000s and a process to make multilayer piezo-actuator actuators. PIC’s patent-pending ceramic-encapsulated actuators are more durable than standard polymer-coated piezoelectric ones. This is due to several new ideas. NASA tested several actuators to identify the best performing ones. PI Ceramic’s PICMA® actuators had passed 100 Billion Cycles of life tests without failure and degradation and got selected.
Future Applications and Markets: Lead-Free Piezoceramic Materials
PI Ceramic’s expertise in acoustic designs, including piezo-transducer spheres or hemispheres, and the portfolio of ultrasonic applications will continue expanding. PI Ceramic’s material specialists are already investing in intensive research to develop lead-free piezoceramic or composite transducers.