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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 115, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4862187
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51372171, 51332003]
- Shanghai Municipal Natural Science Foundation [12ZR1434600]
- Research Committee of the University of Macau
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The effect of (KyNa1-y)NbO3 (KyNN) addition on the ferroelectric stability and consequent changes in the electrical properties of lead-free Bi-0.5(Na0.80K0.20)(0.5)TiO3 (BNKT20) piezoceramics were systematically studied. Results showed that the KyNN substitution into BNKT20 induces a phase transition from coexistence of ferroelectric tetragonal and rhombohedral to a relaxor pseudocubic with a significant disruption of the long-range ferroelectric order, and correspondingly adjusts the ferroelectric-relaxor transition point TF-R to room temperature. Accordingly, a large electric-field-induced strain of 0.33%-0.46% (S-max/E-max 413-575 pm/V), which is derived from a reversible field-induced ergodic relaxor to ferroelectric phase transformation, was obtained in KyNN-modified compositions near the phase boundary. Moreover, a relationship between the position of the ferroelectric-relaxor phase boundary and the tolerance factor t of the end member KyNN was found in BNKT20-xK(y)NN system, which is expected to provide a guideline for searching the new ferroelectric-relaxor phase boundary where the strain response is consistently derivable in (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-based materials. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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