Breviary Technical Ceramics

 

      Areas of Application

 

 


   

6.4 Electronics

Area of Application

Parts

Why use ceramic?

Materials

Electronics,
general

Feed-throughs,
housings,
ferrules,
insulators,
heatsinks,
sleeves,
substrates,
over-voltage protection

Electrical insulation,
temperature and
particular electrical
properties

Alumina porcelain
quartz porcelain,
aluminium oxide,
aluminium nitride

Piezotechnology

Signal transducers:
acoustic-electrical,
electrical -acoustic,
electro-mechanical,
mechanical-electrical

Piezo-electric effect

Lead zirconate titanate,
(piezo-ceramics; PZT)

Table 22: Applications in electronics

 

Figure 126: Power semiconductor housings of ceramic and metal

 

Figure 127: Various piezo-ceramic parts.


Figure 128: Substrates of aluminium oxide

 

 

 
 
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