The effect of ferroelastic coupling in controlling the abnormal aging behavior in lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate relaxor ferroelectrics
- Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (United States)
The abnormal aging behavior, i.e., severe aging in the electric field induced piezoelectric coefficient while very weak dielectric aging, observed in the relaxor ferroelectric lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) ceramics under a dc electric bias field, can be significantly reduced by hot isostatic pressing (HIP) treatment on presintered samples. The aging can also be reduced by doping suitable amounts of either La (donor) or Mn (acceptor). We suggest that the reduction in the aging is due to the introduction of additional random fields into the material which reduces the probability of the growth of micropolar regions into metastable and/or stable macropolar domains. The abnormal aging behavior and the effectiveness of HIP in reducing it indicate the importance of the elastic energy in controlling the aging and relaxor behavior in PMN-PT relaxor ferroelectrics. {copyright} {ital 1997 Materials Research Society.}
- OSTI ID:
- 528004
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Materials Research, Journal Name: Journal of Materials Research Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 12; ISSN JMREEE; ISSN 0884-2914
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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