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Relationships between structure and properties in commercial lead zirconate titanate (PZT) piezoceramics
Tang, Xuyao Hu, Zimeng Koval, Vladimir Baxter, Harry Eriksson, Mirva Whiteley, Richard Banerjee, Krishnarjun Viola, Giuseppe Yang, Bin Yan, Haixue
Tang, Xuyao
Hu, Zimeng
Koval, Vladimir
Baxter, Harry
Eriksson, Mirva
Whiteley, Richard
Banerjee, Krishnarjun
Viola, Giuseppe
Yang, Bin
Yan, Haixue
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Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics are the most widely used commercial piezoelectric ceramics. However, the relationships between structure and properties are still not completely clarified. In this work, a broad investigation is carried out on commercial PZT 5A, 5H and 4D ceramics. X-ray diffraction revealed that these compounds mainly contain a mixture of P4mm and C1m1 phases at room temperature, and poling induces an increased unit cell distortion in both phases and a higher content of the monoclinic phase. In the poled samples, the Curie point shifts towards lower temperatures, contradicting the Abrahams-Kurtz-Jamieson (AKJ) relation for distorted displacive ferroelectrics. The discordance in the phase transition behavior can be attributed to the decreased domain wall density in the PZT systems. Furthermore, the observed increase of the dielectric permittivity from radiofrequency to the THz range is explained by the increase of the ferroelectric distortion associated with the field-induced transitions and decreased domain wall density. A parameter ψ was introduced to characterize the asymmetry of ferroelectric hysteresis loops. The higher ψ value of the hard PZT 4D ceramic compared to that of soft PZT 5A and 5H is attributed to the pinning effect of oxygen vacancies on domain walls.
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Tang, X., Hu, Z., Koval, V., Baxter, H., Eriksson, M., Whiteley, R., Banerjee, K., Viola, G., Yang, B., & Yan, H. (2025). Relationships between structure and properties in commercial lead zirconate titanate (PZT) piezoceramics. Journal of Materiomics, 11(5), article-number 101052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2025.101052
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© 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Chinese Ceramic Society.
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This work was supported by the China Scholarship Council (No. 202006040021), the Royal Society grant (NAF∖R1∖201126), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.12404116), the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (GZC20232832), the Grant Agency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Grant VEGA No 2/0034/23), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (RC Grant reference: EP/Y027752/1). The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is gratefully acknowledged for an equipment grant (KAW 2003.0198) for the electron microscopy facilities at Stockholm University.