In practice, material and molding parameters must be optimized and integrated with injection molding tool design to realize intact preform ejection after molding. Key parameters include: PZT/binder ratio, PZT element diameter and taper, PZT base thickness, tool surface finish, and the molded part ejection mechanism design. In order to evaluate these process parameters without incurring excessive tool cost, a tool design having only two rows of 19 PZT elements each has been adopted for experimental purposes. Each row contains elements having three taper angles (0, 1 and 2 degrees) and two diameters (0.5 and l mm). To accommodate molding shrinkage, the size of the preform is maintained at 5Ox50mm to minimize the
possibility of shearing off the outermost fibers during the cooling portion of the molding cycle.
Figure 3 shows green ceramic preforms fabricated using this tool configuration. Note that all of the PZT elements ejected intact after molding, including those having no longitudinal tapering to facilitate ejection. Slow heating in air has been found to be a suitable method for organic binder removal. Finally, the burned-out preforms are sintered in a PbOrich atmosphere to 97-98% of the theoretical density. No problems have been encountered with controlling the weight loss during sintering of these composite preforms, even for those fine-scale, high-surface area preforms which are intended for high frequency ultrasound.
Figure 4 illustrates the surfaces of as-molded and as-sintered fibers, showing the presence of shallow fold lines approximately 10pm wide, which are characteristic of the injection molding process. The fibers exhibit minor grooving along their length due to ejection from the tool. Figure 5 shows
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