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Tailoring the strain performance of lead-free relaxor/ferroelectric-layered composites

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0.95(Na0.82K0.18)1/2Bi1/2TiO3–0.05FeNbO4 (NKBT-0.05FN) lead-free incipient piezoceramic is a promising candidate for actuator applications due to their large reversible electromechanical strains. However, the driving electric field required to obtain such a large strain is too high to meet the requirements of commercial applications. In this study, 0.95(Na0.82K0.18)1/2Bi1/2TiO3–0.05FeNbO4 /(Na0.82K0.18)1/2Bi1/2TiO3 (NKBT-0.05FN/NKBT) relaxor/ferroelectric (RE/FE) 2–2 type composite ceramics were designed to produce tailored strain properties. By tailoring the phase structure of the composites, a high strain of 0.36% and the corresponding large-signal piezoelectric coefficient d*33 of 720 pm/V were achieved using 90 vol.% NKBT-0.05FN/10 vol.% NKBT under a low driving electric field of 50 kV/cm.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 51672092, U1732117 and 5190021044), and the supported by the Project of Henan Province Science and Technology under grant no.172102210380, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project under grant no. 2018 M632847, and Wuhan Morning Light Plan of Youth Science and Technology (No. 2017050304010299). Specially, the authors appreciate the valuable suggestions and the comments by the reviewers and the editors.

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  1. Information Engineering Institute, Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zijingshan south road, Zhengzhou, 450000, People’s Republic of China

    Yangyang Zhang & Huiling Fan

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Die & Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Pengyuan Fan & Haibo Zhang

  3. Dongguan Pulom Electronics Co. Ltd., Dongguan, 523841, People’s Republic of China

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  4. Enginering Research Centre for Functional Ceramics, Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Guangzhu Zhang, Shenling Jiang & Haibo Zhang

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    Guangzhu Zhang & Shenling Jiang

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Zhang, Y., Fan, P., Fan, H. et al. Tailoring the strain performance of lead-free relaxor/ferroelectric-layered composites. J Electroceram 44, 32–40 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10832-020-00201-y

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