Giant energy density in [001]-textured Pb(Mg1/3Nb 2/3)O3-PbZrO3-PbTiO3 piezoelectric ceramics

Yongke Yan, Kyung Hoon Cho, Deepam Maurya, Amit Kumar, Sergei Kalinin, Armen Khachaturyan, Shashank Priya

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Abstract

Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) based compositions have been challenging to texture or grow in a single crystal form due to the incongruent melting point of ZrO2. Here we demonstrate the method for achieving 90% textured PZT-based ceramics and further show that it can provide highest known energy density in piezoelectric materials through enhancement of piezoelectric charge and voltage coefficients (d and g). Our method provides more than ∼5× increase in the ratio d(textured)/d(random). A giant magnitude of d·g coefficient with value of 59 000 × 10-15 m2 N -1 (comparable to that of the single crystal counterpart and 359% higher than that of the best commercial compositions) was obtained.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number042903
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume102
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 28 2013
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from DARPA Heterostructural Uncooled Magnetic Sensors (HUMS Program) (Y.Y. and K.C.) and Office of Basic Energy Science, Department of Energy through DE-FG02-07ER46480 (D.M. and S.P.). A.M. was supported through the grant DE-FG02-08ER46484. PFM analysis was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Scientific User Facilities Division, U.S. Department of Energy.

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