TY - JOUR
T1 - Microstructure of batiO 3bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3-bifeo3 piezoelectric ceramics
AU - Yabuta, Hisato
AU - Shimada, Mikio
AU - Watanabe, Takayuki
AU - Hayashi, Jumpei
AU - Kubota, Makoto
AU - Miura, Kaoru
AU - Fukui, Tetsuro
AU - Fujii, Ichiro
AU - Wada, Satoshi
PY - 2012/9/1
Y1 - 2012/9/1
N2 - The dependence of the ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of (1- x)(0.33BaTiO 3-0.67BiFeO 3)-xBi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 (x= 0, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15) on Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 content x associated with microstructural changes is studied. From the behaviour of electric field-induced polarization and strain, polarization switching and depolarizing become easier as Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 content x increases. Remanent polarization and dielectric constant decrease, while polarization saturation field increases with increasing x. Microstructural observation reveals that Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 addition enhances the compositional fluctuation of BaTiO 3/BiFeO 3 ratio, which probably creates a nanometre-sized domain region with slightly BaTiO 3-rich composition. Since this nanometre-sized domain may cause relatively large responses of polarization and strain to the applied electric field, an appropriate amount of Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 enhances the electric field-induced strain, resulting in the largest piezoelectric response at x = 0:05. However, excessive Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 degrades polarization and strain characteristics, because a number of Ba(Fe1x - Mgx=2Tix=2)12O19 grains are created as a secondary phase and cause the segregation of excess bismuth oxide phases with low dielectric constant into the boundaries of the ferroelectric/piezoelectric grains.
AB - The dependence of the ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of (1- x)(0.33BaTiO 3-0.67BiFeO 3)-xBi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 (x= 0, 0.05, 0.10, and 0.15) on Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 content x associated with microstructural changes is studied. From the behaviour of electric field-induced polarization and strain, polarization switching and depolarizing become easier as Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 content x increases. Remanent polarization and dielectric constant decrease, while polarization saturation field increases with increasing x. Microstructural observation reveals that Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 addition enhances the compositional fluctuation of BaTiO 3/BiFeO 3 ratio, which probably creates a nanometre-sized domain region with slightly BaTiO 3-rich composition. Since this nanometre-sized domain may cause relatively large responses of polarization and strain to the applied electric field, an appropriate amount of Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 enhances the electric field-induced strain, resulting in the largest piezoelectric response at x = 0:05. However, excessive Bi(Mg 1/2Ti 1/2)O 3 degrades polarization and strain characteristics, because a number of Ba(Fe1x - Mgx=2Tix=2)12O19 grains are created as a secondary phase and cause the segregation of excess bismuth oxide phases with low dielectric constant into the boundaries of the ferroelectric/piezoelectric grains.
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U2 - 10.1143/JJAP.51.09LD04
DO - 10.1143/JJAP.51.09LD04
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867820379
VL - 51
JO - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
JF - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
SN - 0021-4922
IS - 9 PART 2
M1 - 09LD04
ER -