Large Piezoelectric Effect in Pb-Free Ceramics
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- 15 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 103 (25), 257602
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.103.257602
Abstract
We report a non-Pb piezoelectric ceramic system which shows a surprisingly high piezoelectric coefficient of at optimal composition. Its phase diagram shows a morphortropic phase boundary (MPB) starting from a tricritical triple point of a cubic paraelectric phase (), ferroelectric rhombohedral (), and tetragonal () phases. The high piezoelectricity of the MPB compositions stems from the composition proximity of the MPB to the tricritical triple point, which leads to a nearly vanishing polarization anisotropy and thus facilitates polarization rotation between and states. We predict that the single-crystal form of the MPB composition of the present system may reach a giant . Our work may provide a new recipe for designing highly piezoelectric materials (both Pb-free and Pb-containing) by searching MPBs starting from a TCP.
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