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Let APC Help You Choose a Piezo Material

Piezoelectric Materials offered by APC are manufactured from the highest purity raw materials available and have been developed and refined by years of in-house research and development.   APC can produce custom piezo ceramics from any of our PZT materials or if you wish to manufacture your own piezoelectric ceramics, APC
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Ultrasonic Fluid Level Sensors from APC

Ultrasonic fluid level sensors can be used to monitor fluid levels in a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications. Piezo level sensors work by monitoring the acoustic coupling level between an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver. When there is liquid between the transmitting transducer and the receiving
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Having Difficulty Calculating Piezo Ceramic Properties?

Available on APC's website is a Piezoelectric Ceramic Piezo Property Calculator that allows our customers to easily calculate many common physical and electrical properties for APC's piezo products.   The APC Piezo Calculator can calculate: - frequency constant - resonance constant - capacitance - dielectric constant - static displacement - static
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Properties of Piezoelectric Material and Stack Actuators

Having a consistent piezoelectric material is important to the development and production of piezo devices. APC's piezoelectric materials are known in the industry for their performance and low variability in mechanical and electrical properties. APC's piezoelectric materials fall into two broad categories: hard piezo material and soft piezo material. Properties of
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Transmitting Ultrasonic Signals in Water and In-House Services Offered from APC

How Piezoelectricity Works With Ultrasonic Signals

In a typical echo sounding application a single electronically switched piezoelectric transducer operates in both the transmitting and receiving modes. To locate an object in water, the transducer is used to transmit a short pulse of ultrasound in the direction of an object. The signal
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Submit Your Research Project Article to APC

# Want to get the word about your piezo project out to a global audience of thousands of interested professionals and earn money to use on APC's products at the same time? APC is accepting original 300 - 500 word articles about any project or experiments that you have done with piezoelectric
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Piezoelectric Accelerometers and Electricity Generation from Piezos

Piezo Aerospace Materials & Components: APC manufactures piezoelectric components for sensing applications used in the aerospace market APC International manufactures a full range of piezoelectric products used in the aerospace industry. We offer five piezo materials, ready-to-use assembled piezo components, and custom designed piezoelectric ceramics. APC's 850 piezo material, a
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APC 850 Piezo Material and Piezo Ceramics in Medical Applications

APC offers a variety of piezoelectric materials (PZT) to their customers. APC's lead zirconate titanate 850 material is manufactured in the USA with the highest purity raw materials available on the market. For sensing applications, APC 850 is the ideal piezo material because of its unique mechanical and electrical
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