Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 433, Issue 1-2, Pages 124-132Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2006.06.029
Keywords
PZT ceramics; fibers; mechanical properties; ferroelectric domains; piezoelectricity
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The nonlinear mechanical deformation of two tetragonal variants of soft, morphotropic lead zirconate-titanate Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O-3 (PZT) piezoelectric ceramic fiber was correlated with studies of the crystal structure, domain structure, and microstructure. Fibers with dense hierarchical microtwin structures having spatial dimensions of similar to 10 nm showed an additional mode of stress accommodation as evidenced by a larger strain accumulation and greater anelastic response relative to fibers with conventional twin structures consisting primarily of 90 degrees and 180 degrees tetragonal ferroelectric-ferroelastic domains. The differing natures of the domain structures in the two variants of soft PZT materials were associated with differences in the defect chemistry. The observed sensitivity of the nonlinear mechanical deformation to the presence of spatially inhomogeneous microtwin structures is expected to be of particular importance in the engineering of flexible fiber composites and other transducers based on soft PZT piezoelectric materials intended for use under conditions of high amplitude dynamic deformation. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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