Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in Dresden developed piezoelectric layers with more advantageous properties.

The focus is on aluminum-nitride coatings produced with reactive pulse sputtering. The result of using this technology is a coating rate of 200 nanometers per minute.
An application of these thin film coatings is the start and detection of oscillations in ultrasonic sound microscopy.
This allows essential improvement for the images of ultrasonic sound.
Dr. Hagen Bartzsch, head of the research project confirms: “Packaging of integrated circuits will benefit from the improved image quality using the new piezoelectric films.”
Also a second field of application gets interesting for the near future – the micro energy harvesting. The aluminum-nitride coatings could have the potential to power sensors autarkic with energy.

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