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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
Volume 48, Issue 11, Pages 15152-15164Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2022.02.045
Keywords
BaTiO3-based ceramics; O-T phase boundary; Ferroelectric domains; Piezoelectricity; Relaxor behavior
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- Guizhou Province Graduate Research Fund [YJSCXJH [2020] 029]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51602066]
- Specialized Funds from Industry and Information Technology Department of Guizhou Province [2016056]
- High-level Innovative Talents Plan of Guizhou province [(2015) 4009]
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This work aims to improve the electrical properties of BaTiO3-based ceramics by synthesizing piezoceramics and evaluating their phase structures, surface topographies, and ferroelectric domains. The optimized piezoelectricity is achieved at x = 0.03 mol%, with improved performance attributed to the coexistence of the orthorhombic-tetragonal phase boundary and the reduced energy density of the domain wall. Furthermore, all the ceramics are confirmed to be relaxor ferroelectrics, with the degree of relaxor behavior increasing with the increasing content of Sm2O3.
This work aims to upgrade the comprehensive electrical properties of BaTiO3-based ceramics (1-x)[(Ba0.94Ca0.06) (Ti0.92Sn0.08)]-xSm2O3-0.06 mol% GeO2 [abbreviated as (1-x)BCTS-xSm-0.06G]. First, piezoceramics were synthesized via a conventional solid-state method. Next, the phase structures, surface topographies, ferroelectric domains were evaluated using XRD, XRD Rietveld refinements, SEM, OP-PFM, TEM. The results demonstrate that all the ceramics possess an orthorhombic-tetragonal (O-T) phase when at room temperature. Significantly, optimized piezoelectricity is gained at x = 0.03 mol% (piezoelectric constant of d(33) = 630 +/- 20 pC/N and planar electromechanical coupling factor of kp = 61%). The ferroelectric domains of ceramics were examined using OPPFM and TEM, which ulteriorly indicate that the favorable piezoelectricity is attributed to the coexistence of the O-T phase boundary and the subdued energy density of the domain wall. Furthermore, all the ceramics are confirmed to be relaxor ferroelectrics, with the relaxor degree increasing with the increasing content of Sm2O3.
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