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Ceramics are inorganic, non-metallic, solids that consist of a metal, a non-metal, a metalloid such as silicon, or a combination of these. Ceramics utilize ionic or covalent bonding, or both. When thinking of a ceramic you may think of pottery. This is perfectly reasonable since the word “ceramic” is derived from the Greek word keramikos, which means “of pottery” or “for pottery”. “Keramic” is an old, rare, now disused spelling of “ceramic”. The main commercial piezoelectric ceramic is Lead Zirconium Titanate with a typical composition of PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3. It is referred to a PZT and adopts the perovskite crystal structure.
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Baker, I. (2018). Lead Zirconate Titanate. In: Fifty Materials That Make the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78766-4_21
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