Flexoelectric effect in ceramic lead zirconate titanate
- 11 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 86 (7)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1868078
Abstract
Mechanical strain gradient generated electric polarization or flexoelectric effect was investigated in unpoled lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics in the ferroelectric state by using a cantilevered beam based approach. Flexoelectric coefficient μ12 at room temperature was measured to be 1.4μC∕m in the PZT ceramic at small level of strain gradient. Temperature-dependent experimental investigations clearly showed that high dielectric permittivity in the ferroelectrics enhanced flexoelectric polarization: essentially a linear relation was found to exist between μ12 and dielectric susceptibility χ at lower permittivity level (2100–2800), while μ12 versus χ curve started to deviate from the straight line at the χ∼2800 and nonlinear enhancement of μ12 with χ was observed, with μ12 value reaching 9.5 at χ∼11000. The nonlinearity in the flexoelectric effect was associated with domain-related processes. It is suggested that flexoelectric effect can have a significant impact on epitaxial ferroelectric thin films and mesoscopic structures.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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