Issue 7, 2020

Thermal and compositional driven relaxor ferroelectric behaviours of lead-free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–SrTiO3 ceramics

Abstract

The dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties of (1 − x)(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3xSrTiO3 (BNT–ST) ceramics (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.30) are systematically studied in order to investigate their relaxor ferroelectric behaviours driven by thermal and compositional changes. The significant enhancement of the piezoelectric coefficient (d33 = 152 pC N−1) has been observed for x = 0.20. In addition, the BNT–24ST ceramic exhibits an electric field-induced strain of 0.20% at 7 kV mm−1 and a normalized strain d33* of 266 pm V−1. The increase in the ST content drives BNT from the ferroelectric to relaxor ferroelectric state due to the rising disordering level. In addition, the behaviours of the field-induced metastable ferroelectric to relaxor phase transition are studied based on the anomalies in the temperature dependence of the dielectric properties. To investigate the thermal-induced domain behaviour, in situ piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is used to observe the domain structures of the poled BNT–16ST ceramic upon heating and cooling. This study provides evidence for understanding the relaxor ferroelectric behaviours of the BNT–ST ceramics.

Graphical abstract: Thermal and compositional driven relaxor ferroelectric behaviours of lead-free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–SrTiO3 ceramics

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Sep 2019
Accepted
23 Dec 2019
First published
28 Dec 2019

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020,8, 2411-2418

Thermal and compositional driven relaxor ferroelectric behaviours of lead-free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–SrTiO3 ceramics

H. He, X. Lu, M. Li, Y. Wang, Z. Li, Z. Lu and L. Lu, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 2411 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC04864B

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