Pacemaker Powered with Piezo Technology
Pacemakers, no doubt, have improved the lives of many. Unfortunately, pacemakers are powered by batteries that, over time, lose their charge. When this occurs, the patient has to undergo a repeat surgical procedure to replace the pacemaker's battery. Piezoelectric materials may soon change all of this by eliminating the need
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Download the APC Piezo Property Calculator
APC International, Ltd. has announced the release of its APCPiezoCalc iPhone and iPad app. The APCPiezoCalc is an interactive mobile application that allows the user to easily calculate the frequency constant, resonance frequency, capacitance, dielectric constant, static displacement, and static voltage of many piezoelectric ceramic elements. To make calculations easier,
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Coyote Case Utilizes Piezo Technology
Introducing a great new product from Coyote Case, LLC using APC International's piezo technology! The Coyote Case is a durable smartphone case that hides a powerful personal panic alarm coupled with an automated bluetooth-enabled security app. The Coyote Case makes use of a piezo disc bender in the
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Shear Mode Piezo Plates from American Piezo
APC International is pleased to offer shear mode piezo plates. Shear mode plates are poled along the standard 1 axis. Following poling, APC’s skilled staff remove our standard fired-on silver electrodes and re-electrode the piezoelectric ceramic along the 3 axis using an epoxy silver or a sputtered electrode.
APC offers four
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Piezo Product Usage Series: Piezoelectric Cylinders
APC International supplies a wide range of standard and custom designed piezoelectric cylinders. This post provides some additional background information on APC's piezo cylinders. APC's standard cylinders can be found here. For more information on APC's custom cylinders please review information about APC's custom piezoelectric elements.
Typical applications for piezo
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APC 855 Piezo Material is Back!
APC International is continuing the expansion of its domestically produced piezo material product line. APC's 855, Navy Type VI, material is now available as a USA MADE material. APC 855 is an excellent choice for applications such as accelerometers, level sensors, medical monitoring/diagnostics, pressure sensors, microphones and hydrophones. Specify APC
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APC Ceramic used in RPI Data Transmission Research Project
Great new use of piezoelectric ceramics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute! Doctoral student Tristan Lawry has developed a way to transmit large quantities of data and power wirelessly thorough thick metal walls using APC's piezoelectric ceramics. Tristan's research has many applications in the navel industry where one might want to transmit
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Piezo Product Usage Series: Nebulizer Products
APC International supplies a wide range of standard and custom designed Nebulizer Products. This post provides some additional background information on APC’s standard nebulizer products:
1.65MHz Nebulizer Board RoHS (Cat#50-1011.1)
1.65MHz Nebulizer Replacement Assembly (Cat#50-1013)
1.65MHz Nebulizer Crystal (Cat#50-1014).
Typical applications for nebulizer products include:
- Ultrasonic humidification (most common use)
- Atomizing
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