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Title: Temperature dependence of field-responsive mechanisms in lead zirconate titanate

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Ceramic Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14979· OSTI ID:1376454
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  1. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Neutron Scattering Science Directorate
  3. Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  4. PI Ceramic GmbH, Lederhose (Germany)

An electric field loading stage was designed for use in a laboratory diffractometer that enables in situ investigations of the temperature dependence in the field response mechanisms of ferroelectric materials. The stage was demonstrated in this paper by measuring PbZr1-xTixO3 (PZT) based materials—a commercially available PZT and a 1% Nb-doped PbZr0.56Ti0.44O3 (PZT 56/44)—over a temperature range of 25°C to 250°C. The degree of non-180° domain alignment (η002) of the PZT as a function of temperature was quantified. η002 of the commercially available PZT increases exponentially with temperature, and was analyzed as a thermally activated process as described by the Arrhenius law. The activation energy for thermally activated domain wall depinning process in PZT was found to be 0.47 eV. Additionally, a field-induced rhombohedral to tetragonal phase transition was observed 5°C below the rhombohedral-tetragonal transition in PZT 56/44 ceramic. The field-induced tetragonal phase fraction was increased 41.8% after electrical cycling. Finally, a large amount of domain switching (η002=0.45 at 1.75 kV/mm) was observed in the induced tetragonal phase.

Research Organization:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); State of North Carolina (United States)
Contributing Organization:
Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia); PI Ceramic GmbH, Lederhose (Germany)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357; IIP-1361571; IIP-1361503; ECCS-1542015
OSTI ID:
1376454
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1378387
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 100, Issue 9; ISSN 0002-7820
Publisher:
American Ceramic SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 7 works
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