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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4864317
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB632900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50972071, 51172118]
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Antiferroelectric (AFE) (Pb, La)(Zr, Sn, Ti)O-3 (PLZST) single crystal with composition near morphotropic phase boundary has been grown and studied. X-ray diffraction analysis and electrical properties reveal coexistence of antiferroelectric/ferroelectric (FE) phases, with the AFE phase dominated at room temperature. Temperature-dependent polarization and strain measurements indicate that the AFE phase can be induced into a metastable FE phase by electric field. The FE phase can be maintained in a wide temperature range above room temperature and recovers to AFE phase around a critical temperature of 90 degrees C, accompanied with remarkable change in field-induced strain. The strain at 90 degrees C (similar to 0.50%) is ten times larger than that at room temperature (similar to 0.04%), which makes the PLZST single crystal a promising candidate for thermal switch and actuator application. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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