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BRITISH CERAMIC TRANSACTIONS
Volume 103, Issue 2, Pages 93-96Publisher
MANEY PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1179/096797804225012747
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barium titanate; domain engineering; domain size; piezoelectricity; single crystals
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Engineered domain configurations with different domain sizes were induced in [111]c oriented tetragonal barium titanate BaTiO3 single crystals, and their piezoelectric properties investigated as a function of domain size. Prior to this study, the dependence qf domain configuration on temperature and electric field E was investigated using polorised light microscopy to establish the optimum conditionsfor domain size control. As a result, above the Curie temperature T-c qf 132.2degreesC, when E greater than 6 kV cm(-1) was applied along the [111](c) direction, an engineered domain configuration with fine domain structure appeared. Moreover, it was alsofiound that this fine domain structure was still stable at room temperature in the absence oj'electric field. Finally, the piezoelectric properties were measured using 31 resonators with three domain sizes, and it was found that piezoelectric properties such as d(31) and k(31) increased significantly with decreasing domain size.
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