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elopment of PZT powders, fabrication of PZT multilayered stacks,
bimorphs, unimorphs and ring shaped products

Year of Development : 2002-12 Intellectural Property Rights (IPR) : Nil

Application Machinery Required

¡¡ P ZT devices are used for aerospace Fabrication of PZT actuators (Tape
vibration control, accelerometers, casting equipment, screen printer,
force transducers, vibration sen- isostatic laminator, iso-press, precision
sors, precision closing and opening cutter, high temperature furnace)
of valves, sonar transducers, vibra-
tion energy harvesting etc. Market Potential

Salient Technical Features As per Markets & Markets report
available in the public domain, the
¡¡ A process for preparation of accelerometer and gyroscope market
PZT powders with high piezo- is expected to reach USD 3.50 Billion
electric charge constant (d33 > by 2022. The high-end accelerometer
500-700pC/N). and gyroscope market is expected to
grow at a CAGR of 3.8% between 2016
¡¡ Prepared by wet chemical route, and 2022, to reach USD 2.07 Billion by
therefore, minimum variation in 2022 from USD 1.59 Billion in 2015.
piezo properties from batch to The market size region wise is US-80%
batch. Eu- 20% Asia pacific is 10% and rest of
the world 10%. There are major global
¡¡ Fabricated PZT multilayered stacks players in the accelerometer market
by tape-casting technique. like DJB Instruments, Honeywell, Metrix
Instrument etc., apart from around
¡¡ Amplified stack actuators (ASAs) thirty manufacturers and suppliers like
of varied displacement (max. dis- IPA Pvt. Ltd., Precision Instruments &
placement achieved: 173µm at Electronics, etc.
175V).
Major Raw Materials to be Utilized
¡¡ F abricated PZT rings having linear
output voltage at different “g” (up Lead Oxide, Zirconium dioxide and
to 20) Titanium dioxide

Level/Scale of Development : TRL-7
¡¡ PZT powder: 1-10kg/batch
¡¡ PZT multilayered stack: Lab scale

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