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Large piezoelectric effect in Pb-free Ba(Ti,Sn)O3-x(Ba,Ca) TiO3 ceramics

  • National Institute for Materials Science Tsukuba
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract

We designed a Pb-free pseudo-binary system, Ba(Sn0.12Ti 0.88)O3-x(Ba0.7Ca0.3)O3 (BTS-xBCT), characterized by a phase boundary starting from a tricritical triple point of a paraelectric cubic phase, ferroelectric rhombohedral, and tetragonal phases. The optimal composition BTS-30BCT exhibits a high piezoelectric coefficient d33 ∼ 530 pC/N at room temperature. In view of the recent report of high piezoelectricity in another Pb-free system BZT-BCT (Liu and Ren, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 257602 (2009)), which possesses a similar tricritical triple point in the phase diagram, it seems that forming a suitable phase boundary starting from a tricritical triple point could be an effective way to develop high-performance Pb-free piezoelectrics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number122901
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume99
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Sep 2011

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