Phases, domain configuration, and properties of 0.65Pb(Mg1∕3Nb2∕3)O3–0.35PbTiO3 ceramics with grain sizes of 4 and 0.15μm have been studied. The average phase is monoclinic Pm in coexistence with tetragonal. An evolution from micron-sized lamellar domains towards submicron/nanometer sized crosshatched domains is found with the decrease in size, which results in electrical relaxor type behavior and hindered switching. This is proposed to be associated with the slowing down of the relaxor to ferroelectric transition that causes the long time presence of an intermediate domain configuration. Nevertheless, a high sensitivity piezoelectric submicron-structured material is obtained under tailored poling (d33∼300pCN−1).
We have investigated the occurrence of phase-change functional responses in the BiFeO3-PbTiO3 perovskite solid solution, analogous to those anticipated by a recent first-principles study of BiFeO3-BiCoO3. Like the former system, BiFeO3-PbTiO3 shows a morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) between multiferroic polymorphs of rhombohedral and tetragonal symmetries. MPB BiFeO3-PbTiO3 is a high temperature ferroelectric with the phase transition around 900 K, and a room temperature square-shape hysteresis loop with remnant polarization as high as 62 μC cm−2. Strain under the electric field was studied, and a phase-change response was found. Analogous magnetoelectric effects are expected from the multiferroic nature of this MPB.
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