Composition- And temperature-dependent large strain in (1 - x) (0.8Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-0.2Bi0.5K0.5TiO3)- x NaNbO3 ceramics

Guangzhi Dong, Huiqing Fan, Jing Shi, Mengmeng Li

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Abstract

Ternary solid solutions of (1 - x)(0.8Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3- 0.2Bi0.5K0.5TiO3)- xNaNbO3 (BNKT-xNN) lead-free piezoceramics were fabricated using a conventional solid-state reaction method. Pure BNKT composition exhibited an electric-field-induced irreversible structural transition from pseudocubic to ferroelectric rhombohedral phase at room temperature. Accompanied with the ferroelectric-to-relaxor temperature TF-Rshifted down below room temperature as the substitution of NN, a compositionally induced nonergodic-to-ergodic relaxor transition was presented, which featured the pinched-shape polarization and sprout-shape strain hysteresis loops. A strain value of ∼0.445% (under a driving field of 55 kV/cm) with large normalized strain of ∼810 pm/V was obtained for the composition of BNKT-0.04NN, and the large strain was attributed to the reversible electric-field-induced transition between ergodic relaxor and ferroelectric phase.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1150-1155
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume98
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2015

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