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Improves Performance of Medical Imaging and Doppler Blood Flow Equipment

Morgan Electro Ceramics (MEC), a leading manufacturer of electro ceramic products, including piezoelectric ceramics, high voltage and RF capacitors and microwave ceramics, introduces its new piezoelectric composite components. Components manufactured with piezocomposite materials offer improvements over traditional transducer materials, which result in increased acoustic performance for medical applications, including medical imaging and Doppler blood flow equipment.

MEC’s piezoelectric composite materials reduce the cross coupling that typically occurs between different modes in the ceramic of conventional transducers, enabling medical components to respond in a more precise and predictable manner. Additionally, components manufactured with MEC’s piezoelectric composite materials reduce spurious activity, offering higher transmit and receive efficiency. Piezocomposite components also provide lower acoustic impedance and improved transducer bandwidth than that of conventional piezoelectric ceramics alone.

MEC offers piezoelectric composites in both 1-3 and 2-2 orientations, in sizes up to 1.5” square and frequencies from 100 kHz to 12 MHz. In addition, piezoelectric volume fractions can be tailored for any application to enhance transmit and receive response rates.

The piezocomposites can be thermoformed to conform to curved, complex geometric surfaces that conventional piezoceramic materials often cannot be shaped to, providing increased design flexibility. MEC offers piezoelectric composites in both standard and custom materials, including types I, II, and VI, as well as single crystal PMN-PT.

Morgan Electro Ceramics has over 60 years of experience in the design and manufacture of advanced electro ceramic products for the medical industry.

For further information please visit www.morganelectroceramics.com or contact +44 (0) 1978 810456 for European / Asian enquiries or +1 (440) 232 8600 for USA / Australasia enquiries.