Morgan Technical Ceramics Expands Capabilities in Ohio

Morgan Technical Ceramics (MTC) manufacturing site in Bedford, Ohio, now designs and manufactures precision piezoelectric ceramic components made of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) for use in medica and other high-tech applications.

The company can produce intricate piezoelectric designs that meet demanding specifications for such products as transducers, sensors actuators and bimorphs. According to company officials, the manufacturing capability allows MTC to produce high volumes of complex and unique shapes with precise geometries.

Electrical patterns with via widths of 75 microns can be produced. And large-volume, multi-chamber, high-vacuum sputtering equipment can deposit nickel-chrome or aluminum seed layers with gold, silver or vanadium outer conduction layers. In addition, the company’s laser ablation or photo etching processes can produce custom, precision electrode patterning.

High-speed precision diamond dicing equipment is capable of producing very intricate parts with sizes as small as 0.5mm. The same equipment can be used to mechanically remove small amounts of PZT and electrode material to create array patterns or segmented PZT elements.

Morgan Technical Ceramics manufactures components and sub-assemblies using a range of materials, including structural and piezoelectric ceramics, dielectrics, braze alloys, and specialist coatings. It works with manufacturers’ design and R&D teams at the local, national and international level on projects from concept and feasibility studies through prototype development to full production.

The firm has 23 manufacturing sites worldwide across Europe, the United States, Mexico, China and Australia.