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Temperature independent shear piezoelectric response in relaxor- PbTiO 3 based crystals

  • Fei Li
  • , Shujun Zhang
  • , Zhuo Xu
  • , Xiaoyong Wei
  • , Jun Luo
  • , Thomas R. Shrout

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Abstract

The temperature dependence of the shear piezoelectric responses in relaxor- PbTiO3 based perovskite crystals with rhombohedral, orthorhombic, and tetragonal phases were investigated. Based on thermodynamic analysis, high shear piezoelectric coefficients (d24) and good thermal stability were predicted in orthorhombic crystals, owing to the "vertical" orthorhombic-rhombohedral phase boundary. By resonance measurements, shear piezoelectric coefficient d24 was found to be on the order of ∼2100 pC/N at room temperature, maintaining same value over the temperature range of -50-100 °C. In contrast, the shear piezoelectric coefficients d15, with values of 3300, 3600, and 2000 pC/N at room temperature for rhombohedral, orthorhombic, and tetragonal crystals, respectively, exhibited strong temperature dependent behavior due to their respective ferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transitions. © 2010 American Institute of Physics.
Original languageEnglish
Article number252903
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume97
Issue number25
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Dec 2010
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

The author (F. Li) wants to thank for the support from the China Scholarship Council. The authors from Xi’an Jiaotong University acknowledged the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No. 2009CB623306, the National Natural Science foundation of China under Grant Nos. 50632030 and 10976022. This work was supported by NIH under Grant No. P41-EB21820 and ONR (Grant Nos. N00014-07-C-0858 and N00014-09-1-0456).

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