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High piezoelectricity and low strain hysteresis in PMN–PT-based piezoelectric ceramics

Show Author's Information Jiajia Wang,  Shuhao Wang,  Xiang Li,  Ling Li,  Zhen Liu,  Ji Zhang,  Yaojin Wang( )
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
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dielectric, relaxor ferroelectric, piezoelectric ceramics, strain hysteresis (H)
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Wang J, Wang S, Li X, et al. High piezoelectricity and low strain hysteresis in PMN–PT-based piezoelectric ceramics. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2023, 12(4): 792-802. https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220720
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High piezoelectric properties and low strain hysteresis (H) are both equally necessary for practical applications in precisely controlled piezoelectric devices and systems. Unlike most of previous reports, where enhanced piezoelectric performance is typically accompanied by large hysteresis in lead-/lead-free-based ceramics, in this work, we report a reconstructed relaxor ferroelectric composition in 0.68Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.32PbTiO3 (0.68PMN–0.32PT) ceramics through the introduction of (Bi0.5Na0.5)ZrO3 (BNZ) to simultaneously achieve low strain hysteresis (~7.68%), superior piezoelectricity (~1040 pC·N−1), and an electric field induced strain of 0.175%. Our work not only paves the way to simultaneously large piezoelectricity and negligible strain hysteresis in ceramic systems, but also lays the foundation for the further development of novel functional materials.


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High piezoelectricity and low strain hysteresis in PMN–PT-based piezoelectric ceramics

Show Author's information Jiajia Wang, Shuhao Wang, Xiang Li, Ling Li, Zhen Liu, Ji Zhang, Yaojin Wang( )
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

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High piezoelectric properties and low strain hysteresis (H) are both equally necessary for practical applications in precisely controlled piezoelectric devices and systems. Unlike most of previous reports, where enhanced piezoelectric performance is typically accompanied by large hysteresis in lead-/lead-free-based ceramics, in this work, we report a reconstructed relaxor ferroelectric composition in 0.68Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.32PbTiO3 (0.68PMN–0.32PT) ceramics through the introduction of (Bi0.5Na0.5)ZrO3 (BNZ) to simultaneously achieve low strain hysteresis (~7.68%), superior piezoelectricity (~1040 pC·N−1), and an electric field induced strain of 0.175%. Our work not only paves the way to simultaneously large piezoelectricity and negligible strain hysteresis in ceramic systems, but also lays the foundation for the further development of novel functional materials.

Keywords: dielectric, relaxor ferroelectric, piezoelectric ceramics, strain hysteresis (H)

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Received: 27 October 2022
Revised: 22 December 2022
Accepted: 14 January 2023
Published: 24 March 2023
Issue date: April 2023

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11874032, 12204235, and 52202139), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 30920041119 and 30922010402), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20220923), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2021M701716), and Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent (No. 2022ZB248).

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