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Low-temperature sintered (Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3-based incipient piezoceramics for co-fired multilayer actuator application

Pengyuan Fana, Yangyang Zhangb, Shan-Tao Zhangc, Bing Xiea, Yiwei Zhua, Mohsin Ali Marwata, Weigang Maa, Kai Liua, Liang Shua, Haibo Zhanga,d()
School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Material Processing, Die & Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
Information Engineering Institute, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, 450000, China
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
Research Centre for Functional Ceramics, Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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Low-temperature sintered (Na1/2Bi1/2)0.935Ba0.065Ti0.975(Fe1/2Nb1/2)0.025O3 (NBT-BT-0.025FN) lead-free incipient piezoceramics were investigated using high-purity Li2CO3 as sintering aids. With the ≤0.5 wt% Li2CO3 addition, the introduced Li+ cations precede to enter the A-sites of the perovskite lattice to compensate for the A-site deficiencies. Once the addition exceeds 0.5 wt%, the excess Li+ cations will occupy B-sites and give rise to the generation of oxygen vacancies, which accelerate the mass transport and thus lower the sintering temperature effectively from 1100 ℃ down to 925 ℃. It was also found that a small amount of Li+ addition has little effect on the phase structure and electromechanical properties of the system, but overweight seriously disturbs these characteristics because of the large lattice distortion. The sintered NBT-BT-0.025FN incipient piezoceramics with 1.25 wt% Li2CO3 addition at 925 ℃ provides a large strain of 0.33% and a corresponding large signal piezoelectric coefficient d33 of 550 pm/V at 60 kV/cm, indicating this system is a very promising candidate for lead-free co-fired multilayer actuator application.

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Lead-free piezoceramics(Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3Low-temperature sinteringElectric-field-induced strain

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Journal of Materiomics
Volume 5 Issue 3,
September 2019
Pages 480-488
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2019.01.004
Cite this article:
Fan P, Zhang Y, Zhang S-T, et al. Low-temperature sintered (Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3-based incipient piezoceramics for co-fired multilayer actuator application. Journal of Materiomics, 2019, 5(3): 480-488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2019.01.004
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