High-performance ceramics from CeramTec with unique material properties opens up huge performance potential for applications in medical technology.
- Wide range of applications for piezoceramics
- Ultrasonic transducers and sensor solutions
- Structural ceramics: the right material for every application
State-of-the-art medical applications in surgery, diagnostics and medical therapies are often based on assemblies and components made of high-performance ceramics. CeramTec provides components and solutions, supporting next generation ultrasonic surgery, bubble detection sensors for dialysis and infusion pumps and key ceramic materials, used in various applications from RF ablation tips to bipolar surgical insulators.
Versatile Ultrasonic Solutions
Piezoceramics convert forces, pressure and accelerations into electrical signals – or transmit electrical voltages into vibrations or deformations. Key materials in ultrasonic surgical applications such as laproscopic surgeries, phacoemulsification and bone drilling. They are the key sound generators used in lithotripsy, as well as controlling precision drug dosing within ultrasonic nebulization. As an expert in piezo ceramics, CeramTec offers both highly automated mass production and the manufacture of special components with complex shapes in small quantities. Piezoceramics in different geometries and variable sizes are possible.
Piezoceramics for sensors and ultrasonic transducers
CeramTec not only offers piezoceramic parts, but also specializes in the development and manufacture of in-line sensors. These sensors detect gas bubbles, pressure changes and liquid levels in soft, flexible tubes or other containers non-invasively. They are used in medical devices such as infusion pumps, enteral feeding pumps and dialysis machines.
CeramTec is also an expert in ultrasonic transducers and its range of services includes the design, development and manufacture of customized high-power transducers. These are required, for example, for ultrasound therapy devices for cutting and drilling bones. Special Langevin power transducers are used in cell disruption and cell lysis. And ultrasonic transducers generate cavitation for precision cleaning. CeramTec also has a standard high-power transducer with 40 kHz in its range.
Wide range and many years of experience
With a variety of over 40 structural ceramic materials, CeramTec can produce ceramic components for individual requirements: Traditional silicate ceramics or oxide ceramics such as alumina in various degrees of purity and zirconia are produced in both small and large quantities. Non-oxide ceramics such as silicon carbide, silicon nitride and aluminium nitride are available in large quantities. For most shapes and sizes, CeramTec can work with the customer to define a suitable material and design based on their individual requirements. “With over 100 years of experience in technical ceramics and more than 40 years of expert know-how in medical technology, we offer our customers globally networked engineering and solution expertise,” emphasizes Amir Mirza, Sales Director Medical Equipment.
On September 25 and 26, CeramTec will be presenting its portfolio of solutions in the field of medical technology at Medical Technology Ireland in Galway (stand number 85).
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