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Type of Ceramics

The document discusses several types of ceramics including advanced ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optical fibers, and ceramic ball bearings. Advanced ceramics have electrical, magnetic, and optical properties and are used in communications, MEMS, and piezoelectric applications. Piezoelectric ceramics generate electric fields when strained and are used as transducers. MEMS are microscale sensors and actuators made of ceramics like silicon carbonitrides that are used in automotive and display applications. Optical fibers are made of high purity silica to transmit light, and ceramic ball bearings using silicon nitride are lightweight and resistant to

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Type of Ceramics

The document discusses several types of ceramics including advanced ceramics, piezoelectric ceramics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optical fibers, and ceramic ball bearings. Advanced ceramics have electrical, magnetic, and optical properties and are used in communications, MEMS, and piezoelectric applications. Piezoelectric ceramics generate electric fields when strained and are used as transducers. MEMS are microscale sensors and actuators made of ceramics like silicon carbonitrides that are used in automotive and display applications. Optical fibers are made of high purity silica to transmit light, and ceramic ball bearings using silicon nitride are lightweight and resistant to

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Types of Ceramics

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Advanced Ceramics
The other types are the bulk. But the advanced ceramics are the future specially for the electrical, magnetic, and optical properties. They are utilized in optical fiber communications systems, in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), as ball bearings, and in applications of piezoelectric behavior of a number of ceramic materials.

Piezoelectric Ceramics
A few ceramic materials as well as some polymers exhibit the unusual phenomenon of piezoelectricity ( an electric field or voltage) is induced in the ceramic crystal when a mechanical strain is imposed on it. The inverse piezoelectric effect is also displayed by this group of materials. They may be utilized as transducers between electrical and mechanical energies. One of the early uses was the underwater sonar ( a piezoelectric crystal is caused to oscillate by an electric signal which produces high frequency mechanical vibrations and upon encountering an object these signals are reflected back and another piezoelectric material receives it and converts it back into an electric signal) Some of these materials are barium titanate, lead zirconate-titanate, lead titanate, and sodium-potassium niobate.

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)


They are smart systems containing mechanical systems as micro sensors, and micro actuators. The microelectronic components then process this sensory input, and then render decisions that direct responses from the micro actuators devices. These devices may perform positioning, moving, pumping, regulating, and filtering. These actuating devices may include beams, gears, motors, and membranes, which are of microscopic dimensions, on the order of microns in size. Those materials being considered for high speed applications ( unlike the silicon with the low toughness, relatively low softening temperature ~600 deg. And is highly active to the presence of water and oxygen) are silicon carbonitrides alloys. Some of the applications are accelerator/decelerator sensors for airbag systems in automotive, electronic displays, data storage units,etc

Optical Fibers It is made of high purity silica. It must be free of even minute levels of contaminants and other defects that absorbs, scatter a light beam.
Ceramic Ball Bearings The use of silicon nitride balls in ball bearing gives higher resistance to wear and corrosion. It is light weight and is called hybrid bearing.

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