Giant Piezoelectricity and High Curie Temperature in Nanostructured Alkali Niobate Lead-Free Piezoceramics through Phase Coexistence

Wu, Bo; Wu, Haijun; Wu, Jiagang; Xiao, Dingquan; Zhu, Jianguo; Pennycook, Stephen J.

doi:10.1021/jacs.6b09024

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“…However, it should be pointed out that it is physically clearer to use BZT-BCT to demonstrate the morphotropic phase boundary origin for such a material system. Such a physical idea has also been adopted in the designing of KNN-based, lead-free piezoelectric materials, and a promisingly large piezoelectric response has been achieved on the phase boundary of some material systems [18,22,57,58]. The common approach to achieving high piezoelectricity is to place the composition of the material in the proximity of a phase transition regime between two ferroelectric phases.…”

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Recent Progress on BaTiO3-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications

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Due to issues with Pb toxicity, there is an urgent need for high performance Pb-free alternatives to Pb-based piezoelectric ceramics. Although pure BaTiO 3 material exhibits fairly low piezoelectric coefficients, further designing of such a material system greatly enhances the piezoelectric response by means of domain engineering, defects engineering, as well as phase boundary engineering. Especially after the discovery of a Ba(Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8 )O 3 -x(Ba 0.7 Ca 0.3 )TiO 3 system with extraordinarily high piezoelectric properties (d 33 > 600 pC/N), BaTiO 3 -based piezoelectric ceramics are considered as one of the promising Pb-free substitutes. In the present contribution, we summarize the idea of designing high property BaTiO 3 piezoceramic through domain engineering, defect-doping, as well as morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). In spite of its drawback of low Curie temperature, BaTiO 3 -based piezoelectric materials can be considered as an excellent model system for exploring the physics of highly piezoelectric materials. The relevant material design strategy in BaTiO 3 -based materials can provide guidelines for the next generation of Pb-free materials with even better piezoelectric properties that can be anticipated in the near future.

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“…Through optimizing the composition of designed KNN system, the R-T phase boundary was constructed and a good comprehensive 87 At the same year, a new material system comprising (1 À x À yÞK 1Àw Na w Nb 1Àz Sb z O 3 -xBiFeO 3 -yBi 0:5 Na 0:5 ZrO 3 was designed to attain a high d 33 of 550 pC/N and a high T C of 237 ○ C through constructing an R-T phase boundary. 88 This work presents the good comprehensive performance of d 33 and T C , which is superior to those of reported KNN-based ceramics regardless of phase boundary types. …”

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Progress on the doping and phase boundary design of potassium–sodium niobate lead-free ceramics

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Zheng

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J. Adv. Dielect.

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Potassium-sodium niobate (K,Na)NbO 3 /(KNN) lead-free ceramics have drawn vast amount of attention as one of the effective alternatives to lead-based ones. In recent years, the author's group concentrated their work on KNN-based ceramics. This paper reviews the main obtained results in authors' laboratory on how to enhance the piezoelectric properties of KNN-based ceramics, including the ions or compounds substitution, the constructing and types of phase boundaries near room temperature, the investigation of other tools (sintering aids, synthesis technique, poling conditions) on properties. All the published papers up to now show the developing higher performance with maintaining high Curie temperature of KNN-based ceramics which has great potential for the future and is the key to success for the field.

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“…For the ceramics with x = 0 and 0.01, an intensity ratio of 2:1 was found in (002) PC and (200) PC peaks, which was a fingerprint of orthorhombic (O) phase. [9] The corresponding ε r -T curves respectively showed a rhombohedral-orthorhombic phase transition temperature (T R-O ) of −75 °C and an orthorhombic-tetragonal phase transition temperature (T O-T ) of 125 °C for x = 0 and a T R-O of −50 °C and a T O-T of 94 °C for x = 0.01 (Figure 1b), further testifying a pure O phase in the ceramics x = 0 and 0.01 at room temperature. [10] With increasing x, the intensity of (002) PC peak reduced while the one of (200) PC peak increased.…”

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Modifying Temperature Stability of (K,Na)NbO₃ Ceramics through Phase Boundary

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Adv Elect Materials

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Particularly, unipolar strain and its temperature stability comparable to those of soft PZT-4 ceramics were reported in textured (K 0.44 Na 0.52 Li 0.04 )(Nb 0.84 Ta 0.10 Sb 0.06 )O 3 (LF4T) ceramics synthesized by the reactive template grain growth (RTGG) method. [6] Subsequent investigations focused on the improvement of both unipolar strain and its temperature stability using conventional sintering method due to high cost of RTGG. Vast studies strongly proved that phase boundary is an effective way to improve strain properties of KNN-based ceramics. [1] Particularly, the construction of new phase boundary by simultaneously shifting the rhombohedral-orthorhombic and orthorhombic-tetragonal phase transition temperature (e.g., T R-O and T O-T ) toward room temperature proved to enhance the piezoelectric properties of KNN-based ceramics. [1,7] Although the improved piezoelectricity can be guaranteed by means of phase boundaries, the related electrical properties still exhibited the strong temperature dependence due to the nature of polymorphic phase boundary that is different from the morphotropic phase boundary in PZT-based ceramics. [1,2,4,5] More importantly, the systematical investigations on how the phase boundaries affected the strain and its temperature stability is still missing, which could further promote the understanding of KNNbased ceramics.Recently, the temperature-insensitive dielectric properties were reported in SrZrO 3 -modified KNN-based ceramics, accompanying with small permittivity variation of ±15% (−65 to 201 °C). [8] Here, (0.99-x)(K 0.5 Na 0.5 )(Nb 0.965 Sb 0.035 )O 3 -0.01SrZrO 3 -x(Bi 0.5 Na 0.5 )ZrO 3 (x = 0-0.05) ceramics were chosen as an example to illustrate the effects of phase boundaries on the strain and its temperature stability. Through the study of temperature-dependent unipolar strain at different phase boundaries and similar phase boundary with different locations, effects of phase boundaries on strain and its temperature stability were illustrated. More importantly, the improved temperature stability of unipolar strain (S uni ) was observed in the ceramics (x = 0.03), e.g., high retention (≈95%) of S uni at T = 180 °C and low variation of 24% at T = 20-180 °C. The related physical mechanisms were discussed in detail. Results and DiscussionA typical perovskite structure without any other secondary phases was found in all samples ( Figure S1, Supporting Information).

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Giant Piezoelectricity and High Curie Temperature in Nanostructured Alkali Niobate Lead-Free Piezoceramics through Phase Coexistence

Cited by 341 publications

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Recent Progress on BaTiO3-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications

Progress on the doping and phase boundary design of potassium–sodium niobate lead-free ceramics

Modifying Temperature Stability of (K,Na)NbO₃ Ceramics through Phase Boundary

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Giant Piezoelectricity and High Curie Temperature in Nanostructured Alkali Niobate Lead-Free Piezoceramics through Phase Coexistence

Cited by 341 publications

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Recent Progress on BaTiO3-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications

Recent Progress on BaTiO3-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications

Progress on the doping and phase boundary design of potassium–sodium niobate lead-free ceramics

Modifying Temperature Stability of (K,Na)NbO3 Ceramics through Phase Boundary

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