Piezoelectric ceramics with high piezoelectricity and broad temperature usage range

Qinghu Guo, Fei Li, Fangquan Xia, Pengbin Wang, Xiaoyi Gao, Hua Hao, Hanxing Liu, Huajun Sun*, Shujun Zhang*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There is a general observation that the Curie temperature and piezoelectric property of the ferroelectric ceramics can be enhanced only at the expense of each other, i.e., higher piezoelectricity, lower Curie temperature, thus, limits their applications over broad temperature range. In this research, Sm-modified 0.15 Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-(0.85-x)PbZrO3-xPbTiO3 ceramics have been studied, where excellent piezoelectric coefficients d33 = 720 pC/N, d33∗ = 950 pm/V and high Curie temperature TC = 293 °C were simultaneously achieved for x = 0.42 composition by designing the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) with local structural heterogeneity. Of particular significance is that a high thermal stability was observed with piezoelectric variation below 20% with temperature up to 280 °C, demonstrating that the x = 0.42 composition is a good candidate for piezoelectric application over broad temperature range where high temperature stability is required. This work provides a good paradigm for designing high-performance piezoelectric ceramics with high thermal stability via a combination of MPB and local structural heterogeneity. © 2020 The Chinese Ceramic Society
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)683-692
JournalJournal of Materiomics
Volume7
Issue number4
Online published26 Nov 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported by NSFC-Guangdong Joint Funds of the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.U1601209), the Natural Science Foundation of China (51872213), Major Program of the Natural Science Foundation of China (51790490) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2019-YB-009).

Research Keywords

  • Electromechanical response
  • Local structural heterogeneity
  • Piezoelectric ceramics
  • Thermal stability

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