Program

Schedule

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Industry workshop: CTS Ferroperm Piezoceramics 

12:30 - 13:00    Registration 

13:00 - 17:45    Workshop 

18:00 - 21:00    Get together & Exhibition at Fraunhofer IKTS

 

Thursday, November 7, 2024

International Symposion on Piezocomposite Applications ISPA

08:00 - 08:40    ISPA registration

08:40 - 09:00    Opening

09:00 - 10:00    Session 1: Solutions and customer requirements

10:00 - 10:45    Break & Exhibition

10:45 - 12:15    Session 2: Piezoelectric materials and components

12:15 - 13:30    Lunch break & Exhibition

13:30 - 15:00    Session 3: Customer Solutions for Sonar Technology

15:00 - 15:30    Break & Exhibition

15:30 - 16:30    Session 4: Customer Solutions for High Intesive Focused Ultrasound

16:45 - 17:45    IKTS lab tour     

19:00 - 22.00    Conference dinner

 

Friday, November 8, 2024

09:00 - 10:30    Session 5: Customer Solutions for Energy Harvesting and Ultrasonics

10:30 - 11:15    Break & Exhibition

11:15 - 13:00    Session 6: Market and Future Developments

13:00 - 13:30    Lunch break & Exhibition

13:30 - 14:00    Summary

14:00 - 14:30    Closing remarks

 

Detailed program

Day 1: November 6, 2024

 

CTS Ferroperm Piezoceramics – Workshop

13:00–13:15

Welcome (CTS product lines and capabilities)
E. Ringgaard, CTS Denmark
13:15–14:00 Basic concepts, application examples, FEM
E. Ringgaard
14:00–14:30  Coffee break
14:30–15:15 Lead-free materials
J. Nikkel, CTS Denmark
15:15–16:00 Single crystals, composites, Thick Film, PiezoPaint, Multilayer
E. Ringgaard
16:00–16:45 Coffee break
16:45–17:30 Textured ceramics
J. Nikkel
17:30–17:45 Future materials and technologies
E. Ringgaard
18:00–21:00 Get together & exhibition at Fraunhofer IKTS

 

 

 

Day 2: November 7, 2024

 

Opening
8:40–8:50 Welcome
Prof. Dr. habil. Alexander Michaelis, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
8:50–9:00  Dr. Holger Neubert, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Thomas Daue, Smart Material Corp., USA
Session 1: Solutions and customer requirements

9:00–9:30 

Keynote: Harmonically driven piezoelectrics: the enabling technology for high frequency HIFU in treatment of skin cancer and other skin conditions
Tomasz Zawada, TOOsonix A/S, Denmark

9:30–10:00

Lead-free ceramics based on BNT-BT
Dr. Tanja Einhellinger-Müller, CeramTec GmbH, Germany
10:00–10:45 Coffee break in exhibition area
Session 2: Piezoelectric materials and components
10:45–11:15 Replacement of PZT piezoceramics with lead-free alternative in selected applications
Paula Huth, PI Ceramic GmbH, Germany
11:15–11:45 Lead-free piezoelectrics—The environmental and regulatory issues 
Otmar Deubzer, Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM, Germany
11:45–12:15 3D-structured piezoelectric sensor fabricated by ceramic additive manufacturing
Chang-Jun Bae, Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), Republic of Korea
12:15–13:30 Lunch break in exhibition area
Session 3: customer Solutions FOR SONAR TECHNOLOGY
13:30–14:00 Adjustment of internal resonances in 1-3 piezo composites 
Stephan Rautenberg, ATLAS Elektronik GmbH, Germany
14:00–14:30 A high-power multilayer PVDF acoustic projector for 40 to 80 kHz band
Antonio Silva, University of Algarve (UALG), Portugal
14:30–15:00 Lead free sonar transducers for underwater acoustics
Nicolas JOSSO, Félix Sisombat and Raphael Lardat, Thales Defense Mission Systems, France
15:00–15:30 Coffee break in exhibition area

Session 4: customer Solutions FOR High Intesive Focused Ultrasound

15:30–16:00 High piezoelectric constant Mn:PIN-PMN-PT and High-Q applications
Yoonsang Jeong, Haseong Park and Sang-Goo Lee (iBULe Photonics, Inc.) and Yub Je, Yohan Cho and Hee Seon Seo (Maritime Technology Research Institute, Agency for Defense  Development), Republic of Korea
16:00–16:30 Relevant international standards for development and application of HIFU technology - an overview
Klaus Jenderka, Hochschule Merseburg, Germany
16:45–17:45 Fraunhofer lab tour
19:00–22:00 Conference dinner

Day 3: November 8, 2024

 

Session 5: customer Solutions FOR ENERGY HARVESTING AND ULTRASONICS

9:00–9:30

Keynote: 1-3 piezocomposites with crystallographically textured ceramic fibers and textured 0-3 piezocomposites with single crystal particles aligned under electric fields 
Sedat Alkoy, Gebze University, Turkey

9:30–10:00

High frequency ultrasonic transducers with softmold piezocomposites for NDT
Frank Schubert and Dr. Sylvia Gebhardt, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany

10:00–10:30

Sound field characterization of composite-based airborne ultrasonic transducers with structured electrodes
Ralf Steinhausen, Forschungszentrum Ultraschall,  Germany and Andreas Mück, SONOTEC GmbH, Germany

10:30–11:15

Coffee break in exhibition area
Session 6: market and future developments, summary

11:15–11:45

Innovative welding integration of acousto-ultrasonic composite transducers onto thermoplastic composite structures
Shankar Galiana, Institute of Lightweight Systems, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

11:45–12:15

Gyroid-Shaped Piezocomposite Manufacturing and Electro-Mechanical Property Investigation
E Can Günes, Advanced Ceramics Group, University of Bremen, Germany
12:15–12:45 N.N.
12:45–13:15 N.N.

13:15–13:45

Lunch break in exhibition area
SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS

13:45–14:15

Quo vadis, piezocomposites?
Thomas Daue, Bill Esler, Smart Material Corp., USA

14:15–14:45

Symposium wrap up and farewell
Dr. Holger Neubert, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany