Piezo Ceramic Actuators, Subassemblies Catalog Available

AUBURN, Mass., March 25 -- A catalog of piezo ceramic actuators and custom subassemblies is available from PI's piezo ceramic division, PI Ceramic. It features a wide variety of precision actuators and components with hundreds of standard and custom models.

The 50-page catalog is an essential reference book on the fundamentals of piezo actuators and their applications in today's high-tech fields, from semiconductor technologies to aerospace engineering.

In addition to product specifications and drawings, it includes a tutorial on the basics of piezo actuators and how to get most out of this technology.

The following products groups are featured:

Low-voltage PICMA ceramic insulated multilayer actuators

PICMA chip mini-actuators

Multi-axis shear actuators

High-force stack actuators: forces to 100,000 N (~10 tons)

Multilayer bender actuators

High-force tubular stack actuators

Scanner tube actuators

Piezo actuators provide motion with subnanometer precision and submillisecond response. They are mainly used in the following industries:

Semiconductor test & metrology

Data storage

Photonics alignment and packaging

Medical analytical equipment

Biotechnology, life sciences, microdispensing applications

Optics, lasers, interferometry

Scanning microscopy

Micromanufacturing

Aerospace

Precision machining