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Studies of structural and dielectric properties of lead-free perovskite K0.5Na0.5NbO3 (KNN) ceramics obtained by the substitution of 5 at% of La and Ti for ions in the A-site and B-site, respectively, and sintered at different temperatures between 1100°C and 1190°C, are presented. X-ray diffraction patterns show the successful formation of an orthorhombic perovskite phase similar to that of pure KNN. The effect of doping and sintering temperature on the dielectric properties of the resulting ceramics is discussed. Simultaneous substitution of La and Ti into the KNN (KNNLaTi) causes a shift in the ferroelectric–paraelectric phase transition temperature from that of pure KNN (420°C) to considerably lower ones (81 to 110°C) for the modified compounds. A particularly important result is the appearance of a single peak in the permittivity vs. temperature curve associated with the ferroelectric–paraelectric phase transition, where the KNNLaTi compound changes from orthorhombic to cubic structure, instead of the two reported for pure KNN. This transition exhibits the characteristics of a normal diffuse phase transition with an incipient relaxer behavior.
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Thanks are due to Project PAPIME PE100409/ ‘Programa México, Centroamérica y el Caribe para el avance de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación, CONACYT-ICTP-SMF’. To Project DGAPA-PAPIIT-UNAM No. IN112610, CONACYT projects 27633 and 166286and to E. Apariciofor theXRD measurements. C. Ostos thanks the ICyTDF-CLAF for a postdoctoral fellowship (2011).
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Fuentes, J., Portelles, J., Pérez, A. et al. Structural and dielectric properties of La- and Ti-modified K0.5Na0.5NbO3 ceramics. Appl. Phys. A 107, 733–738 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-012-6793-x
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