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Phase and domain engineering strategy for enhancement of piezoelectricity in the lead-free BiFeO3-BaTiO3 ceramics

Muhammad Habiba, Xuefan Zhoua(), Lin Tanga, Guoliang Xuea, Fazli Akramb, Meshal Alzaidc, Dou Zhanga()
State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China
Department of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA, 30314, United States
Department of Physics, College of Science, Jouf University, Al-Jouf, Sakaka, P.O. Box 2014, Saudi Arabia

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Lead-free BiFeO3-BaTiO3 ceramics attract widespread attention over the last two decades due to their high Curie temperature (TC) and excellent piezoelectric performance. Here, in the Nd-modified 0.67BiFeO3-0.33BaTiO3 ceramics, an excellent piezoelectric constant (d33) of 325 pC/N was achieved by applying a novel poling method (AC-bias + DC-bias) with a high TC of 455 ℃. In addition, an ultrahigh normalized piezoelectric strain (d33* = Smax/Emax) of 808 pm/V was obtained at the normal/typical and relaxor-ferroelectrics phase boundary simultaneously with good thermal stability (Δd33*(T) ≈ 20%) in the temperature range of 25–125 ℃. The piezoelectric force microscopy results show the domain miniaturization from micro to nanoscale/polar nano-regions due to local structure heterogeneity caused by Nd doping. The mechanism for the giant piezoelectric strain is attributed to the thermal quenching, nano-domains, and reverse switching of the short-range order to the long-range order under the applied electric field. The strategic design of domain engineering and a proposed model for the high piezoelectricity is successfully supported by the phenomenological relation and Gibbs free energy profile. In this work, a new lead-free single-element modified BiFeO3-BaTiO3 ceramics was developed by applying a synergistic approach of domain engineering and phase boundary for the high-temperature piezoelectric performance.

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Domain engineeringBiFeO3-BaTiO3PiezoelectricTemperature-stability

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Journal of Materiomics
Volume 9 Issue 5,
September 2023
Pages 920-929
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2023.02.015
Cite this article:
Habib M, Zhou X, Tang L, et al. Phase and domain engineering strategy for enhancement of piezoelectricity in the lead-free BiFeO3-BaTiO3 ceramics. Journal of Materiomics, 2023, 9(5): 920-929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2023.02.015
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