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Research Article | Open Access | Online First

Stabilizing oxygen vacancies and promoting electrostrain in lead-free potassium niobate-based piezoelectrics over wide temperature ranges

Bingcheng Luo1Wei Feng2Suwei Dai3Hongzhou Song4Yunyi Wu5Jie Zhang6( )
College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
School of Materials Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
Research Center for Comprehensive Energy Technology, CTG Science and Technology Research Institute, Beijing 100038, China
Research Center for Metamaterials, Wuzhen Laboratory, Jiaxing 314500, China
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Abstract

Piezoelectric ceramics provide high strain and large driving forces in actuators. A large electrostrain can be realized by the introduction of point defects such as vacancies, interstitial defects, and substitution defects. With Mn doping, a significant increase in the reversible electrostrain from 0.05% to 0.17% could be achieved in potassium niobite lead-free piezoelectric ceramics. The origins of the large electrostrain were analyzed via in situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) under an electric field. The electrostrain and other typical electrical properties of the samples were measured at various temperatures, which enabled the ceramics to perform under a very wide temperature range, such as −80–130 °C for the 0.5 mol% Mn-doped sample with low dielectric loss (≤ 0.02). More importantly, combined with characterizations of the defect behavior by thermally stimulated depolarization current (TSDC), the failure mechanisms of electrostrain in a high-temperature environment could be revealed, which was associated with synergistic damage to the defects caused by the electric field and high temperature. The results can provide good ideas and a basis for the design of piezoelectric materials with good electrostrain stability over a wide temperature range.

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Luo B, Feng W, Dai S, et al. Stabilizing oxygen vacancies and promoting electrostrain in lead-free potassium niobate-based piezoelectrics over wide temperature ranges. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2024, https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2024.9220989

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Received: 18 August 2024
Revised: 27 September 2024
Accepted: 16 October 2024
Published: 26 November 2024
© The Author(s) 2024.

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