Enhanced piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties in the BaZrO3 substituted BiFeO3-PbTiO3

摘要

BiFeO3-PbTiO3 (BF-PT) compounds possess very high Curie temperature and tetragonality compared to other PbTiO3-based piezoceramics. The BaZrO3 (BZ), with weakly ferroelectric active cations, was introduced into the BiFeO3-PbTiO3 to reduce the tetragonality (c/a) and improve the piezoelectric property. For the (0.8-x)BiFeO3-0.2BaZrO3-xPbTiO3, the BaZrO3 substitution can effectively decrease the tetragonality (c/a) from 1.18 to 1.02 for those compositions near the morphotropic phase boundary. The piezoelectric property of BiFeO3-PbTiO3 can be much enhanced with an optimal piezoelectric constant ∼270 pC/N with a reduced TC of 270 °C. Both the temperature dependent dielectric properties and polarization loops verified the existence of antiferroelectric relaxor, which was not observed in previous reported BiFeO3-PbTiO3 based materials.