Evaluating Lead Zirconate Titanate Materials in SingleElement Piezo Transducers

摘要

With so many choices available in lead zirconate titanate (PZT) materials and processing techniques,making a decision on the direction to pursue can be difficult.What is the real performance difference between traditional dense PZT,porous PZT and composite PZTin practice? Identical single-element transducers were used as a test bed to evaluate the differences in performance ofthese three styles of PZT materials in four different operational categories.