SBIR/STTR Research Award
High Temperature Piezoelectric Systems for Actuators and Sensors
Award amount
$749,929Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- TRS CERAMICS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- PMYKUK6KNB75
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Ceramic materials with the general formula (1-x)Bi(Me)O3-xPbTiO3 (Me = Sc, In, Yb, or Fe) have been shown to have Curie temperatures ranging from 450 to >600¿C, 100 to > 250¿C higher than the highest temperature PZT compositions. Furthermore, theBi(Me)-PT materials have room temperature piezoelectric properties equivalent to those of Type I and II PZT's, the materials of choice for temperature stable sensor and actuator applications. The new materials are expected to be beneficial for automotive,aerospace, or well drilling applications where devices such as piezoelectric fuel injectors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, or acoustic transducers are currently performance limited by the maximum operating temperature of PZT (<200¿C).For the Phase II program production of Bi(Me)-PT ceramics will be scaled up to pilot levels (500 to 1000 kg of powder per year and/or 1000 to 2000 3
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Ternary Single Crystal Tonpilz Transducers with Reduced Side Lobes for Wide Angle Beam Steering
- High Speed and High Voltage Capacitors for Naval HPRF Directed Energy Applications
- Advanced Ceramic High Speed and High Voltage Capacitors
- Ternary Single Crystal Tonpilz Transducers with Reduced Side Lobes for Wide Angle Beam Steering
- Low Cost Manufacturing of Vector Velocity Sensors
Research funding history
129 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1991–2017). Reported award amounts total $37,410,092. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy