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High piezoelectricity by multiphase coexisting point: Barium titanate derivatives

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BaTiO3-based lead-free piezoelectric materials have long been known as “a mediocre class of piezoelectric materials.” However, they have seen significant renewed interest in recent years ever since the discovery of high piezoelectricity in Ba(Zr, Ti)O3-(Ba, Ca)TiO3 as well as the related Ba(Sn, Ti)O3-(Ba, Ca)TiO3 and Ba(Hf, Ti)O3-(Ba, Ca)TiO3 systems. The unexpectedly high piezoelectricity in this class of BaTiO3 (BT)-based materials is still not well understood and has stimulated significant research activity. We present a concise discussion of the notions leading to high piezoelectricity in BaTiO3-based systems. In particular, the possible role of a multiphase-coexisting point is highlighted.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Y. Wang, W.F. Liu, C. Zhou, L. Zhang, Y. Liu, and Z. He for helpful discussion, and gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB619401), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51571156, 51321003, 51302209, 51431007, and 51320105014), and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT13034). J.G. acknowledges the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities for financial support. X.R. acknowledges support from the JSPS Kakenhi Grant.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment and Multidisciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

    Jinghui Gao

  2. Frontier Institute of Science and Technology and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

    Xiaoqin Ke

  3. University of Cambridge, UK

    Matias Acosta

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Julia Glaum

  5. Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

    Xiaobing Ren

  6. Center for Advanced Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

    Xiaobing Ren

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Gao, J., Ke, X., Acosta, M. et al. High piezoelectricity by multiphase coexisting point: Barium titanate derivatives. MRS Bulletin 43, 595–599 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2018.155

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