Microstructure and Electrical Properties of Eu-Doped K^sub 0.5^Na^sub 0.5^NbO^sub 3^ Ceramics

(K...Na...Eu...NbO... (0≤x≤0.05) lead-free ceramics have been prepared by a conventional solid state reaction. XRD show that the ceramics possess a pure perovskite structure with orthorhombic symmetry. Dopant Eu restrains the grain growth, decreases the ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition te...

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Published inFerroelectrics Vol. 486; no. 1; p. 168
Main Authors Zhang, Li-Hua, Wang, Shu-Lin, Cheng, Xue-Liang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.01.2015
Subjects
Ceramics
Electric properties
Grain growth
Microstructure
Phase transitions
Symmetry
Temperature
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Summary:(K...Na...Eu...NbO... (0≤x≤0.05) lead-free ceramics have been prepared by a conventional solid state reaction. XRD show that the ceramics possess a pure perovskite structure with orthorhombic symmetry. Dopant Eu restrains the grain growth, decreases the ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition temperature and leads to a diffuse phase transition. With the increase of Eu, the observed remanent polarization (P...) decreases while the coercive field (E...) remains almost unchanged. Nevertheless, for the increase in relative permittivity, the sample with x = 0.005 exhibits the optimum piezoelectric properties, giving a large piezoelectric coefficient (d... = 121 pC/N) and a high planar electromechanical coupling coefficient (k... = 0.41). (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae/symbols omitted.)
ISSN:0015-0193
1563-5112