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Electro-elastic properties of YCa4O(BO3)3 piezoelectric crystals

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Abstract

YCa<sub>4</sub>O(BO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub> (YCOB) crystal was reported to be a potential material for high temperature piezoelectric sensing applications. In this paper, the full matrix of electro-elastic constants, including dielectric permittivities, elastic constants, and piezoelectric coefficients were determined. The relative dielectric permittivities were measured to be ε<sub>11</sub><sup>T</sup>/ε<sub>0</sub>=9.65, ε<sub>22</sub><sup>T</sup>/ε<sub>0</sub>=11.80, ε <sub>33</sub><sup>T</sup>/ε<sub>0</sub>=9.55, and ε<sub>13</sub> <sup>T</sup>/ε<sub>0</sub>=0.95, respectively. The piezoelectric coefficients were determined to be d<sub>11</sub> = 1.7, d<sub>12</sub> = 3.9, d<sub>13</sub> = -4.2, d<sub>15</sub> = -1.1, d<sub>24</sub> = 4.4, d <sub>26</sub> = 7.9, d<sub>31</sub> = -0.77, d<sub>32</sub> = -2.5, d <sub>33</sub> = 1.4, and d<sub>35</sub> = -5.0 pC N<sup>-1</sup>. In addition, piezoelectric cross-talks of YCOB crystals were investigated, where (XZlw)45°/35° and (YXt)-30° crystal cuts were found to possess pure thickness shear mode, with relatively large effective piezoelectric coefficients, being on the order of d<sub>15</sub> = 8.8 and d<sub>26</sub> = 9.0 pC N<sup>-1</sup>, respectively. © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)574-579
JournalPhysica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science
Volume211
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2014
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

The authors thank Prof. Thomas R. Shrout for the helpful discussion. This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91022034, 51202129), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2012EMQ004), the Postdoctoral Innovation Foundation Funded Project of Shandong Province (201203066) (China), Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2012M511019), and the Independent Innovation Foundation of Shandong University (2011GN056).

Research Keywords

  • dielectric permittivity
  • elastic constants
  • oxyborate crystal
  • piezoelectric properties

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