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Lead-Free BiFeO3-BaTiO3 Ceramics with High Curie Temperature: Fine Compositional Tuning across the Phase Boundary for High Piezoelectric Charge and Strain Coefficients
- Source :
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13:4192-4202
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2021.
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Abstract
- BiFeO3-BaTiO3 is a promising high-temperature piezoelectric ceramic that possesses both good electromechanical properties and a Curie temperature (TC). Here, the piezoelectric charge constants (d33) and strain coefficients (d*33) of (1 - x)BiFeO3-xBaTiO3 (BF-xBT; 0.20 ≤ x ≤ 0.50) lead-free piezoelectrics were investigated at room temperature. The results showed a maximum d33 of 225 pC/N in the BF-0.30BT ceramic and a maximum d*33 of 405 pm/V in the BF-0.35BT ceramic, with TCs of 503 and 415 °C, respectively. To better understand the performance enhancement mechanisms, a phase diagram was established using the results of XRD, piezoresponse force microscopy, TEM, and electrical property measurements. The superb d33 of the BF-0.30BT ceramic arose because of its location in the optimum point in the morphotropic phase boundary, low oxygen vacancy (VO··) concentration, and domain heterogeneity. The superior d*33 of the BF-0.35BT ceramic was attributed to a weak relaxor behavior between coexisting macrodomains and polar nanoregions. The presented strategy provides guidelines for designing high-temperature BF-BT ceramics for different applications.
- Subjects :
- 010302 applied physics
Phase boundary
Materials science
Condensed matter physics
02 engineering and technology
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Piezoelectricity
Piezoresponse force microscopy
visual_art
Vacancy defect
0103 physical sciences
visual_art.visual_art_medium
Curie temperature
Polar
General Materials Science
Ceramic
0210 nano-technology
Phase diagram
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19448252 and 19448244
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1cfc00a1965bd1394620a8a806169c5d