Piezo Direct serves a wide range of industrial and commercial markets with our custom piezo components. We excel in producing and delivering some of the most difficult and challenging piezo ceramic products. To explore more applications in detail, please read more about our fully customizable piezo components – piezo actuators, piezoelectric sensors, and piezoelectric transducers.
Piezoelectricity is a rapidly growing resource to improve the efficiency and functionality of many household and industrial equipment. Piezo components can generate electricity through the piezoelectric effect, in which piezo elements can produce an electrical signal when a mechanical force is applied. Piezoelectric sensors rely of this effect for reading measurements. The inverse piezoelectric effect occurs when an electrical voltage is applied to a piezo element, causing the piezo crystals to deform and generate displacement. Piezo actuators rely on this effect to produce fine and precise movement.
The broad capabilities of piezo elements are extremely diverse, and piezo elements implemented into machines and equipment can vastly improve their accuracy, efficiency, and functionality. Because piezo components are small, consume little power, and tolerant of extreme temperatures and environments, they are ideal for industrial, medical, automotive, commercial, nuclear, hydraulics, and aerospace applications. From laboratory devices to watches and alarms, there are limitless opportunities to utilize piezo elements in almost any applications.
Here are some of the major industries where our piezo components are used:
Industrial
- Transducers, sensors
- Ultrasonic cleaning
- Ultrasonic motors
- Hydrophones
- Sonar Equipment
- Inkjet Pumps
- Precision machinery
- Scanning probe microscopy
Instrumentation
- Heat sensor
- Flow rate measurement
- Torque measurement
- Depth measurement
- Pressure measurement
- Various ultrasonic machinery
Medical & Life Science
- Micropumps
- Drug dispenser valves
- Microdosing equipment
- Nebulizers
- Bone conduction hearing aids
- Ultrasonic surgical instruments and ultrasound equipment
Aerospace & Automotive
- Fuel injectors
- Thruster controls, active trailing edge
- Active vibration, noise cancellation
- Accelerometers
Injection Valve
- Non-contact dispensing
- IC dispensing
- LED dispensing
- Camera module dispensing
Microwave
- RFID antennas
- GPS antennas
- Resonators (cell base stations)
- Chip BT antennas
- Consumer antennas
Communication
- Sensors, resonators, phasers
- Antennas
- Filters
Nano Positioning
- Piezo positioning stages
- Microscope and imaging systems
- 3D printing and linear motors
- Pumps and valve drivers
Optics
- Fiber positioning
- Add/drop multiplexers
- Turntable lasers
- Focusing devices for optical and electronic microscopes
Emerging Technology
- Various IOT Devices
- Electronic motors
- Energy Harvesting
Sound Production
- Guitar pickups
- Sound amplification
- Replacement of conventional smartphone speakers
