Flex-Patch: a highly flexible piezoceramic composite with attached electrical leads

Garnett C. Horner; John Teter; Eugene Robbins

doi:10.1117/12.429665

14 June 2001 Flex-Patch: a highly flexible piezoceramic composite with attached electrical leads

Garnett C. Horner, John Teter, Eugene Robbins

Proceedings Volume 4332, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.429665
Event: SPIE's 8th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2001, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

A new packaging technique for piezoceramic wafers is presented in which encapsulation of the piezoceramic incorporates the electrical leads. This technique for encapsulation produces a hermetically sealed package that also is flexible. The resulting product is called Flex-Patch because of the high flexibility. Micro-graphs of the flexed piezoceramic show that despite micro-cracking within the ceramic there is little, if any, loss in performance. Flex-Patch may be surface mounted or embedded into composites.

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Garnett C. Horner, John Teter, and Eugene Robbins "Flex-Patch: a highly flexible piezoceramic composite with attached electrical leads", Proc. SPIE 4332, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies, (14 June 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.429665

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