Temperature dependence of field-responsive mechanisms in lead zirconate titanate

Ching Chang Chung; Chris M. Fancher; Catherine Isaac; Jason Nikkel; Eberhard Hennig; Jacob L. Jones

doi:10.1111/jace.14979

Temperature dependence of field-responsive mechanisms in lead zirconate titanate

Ching Chang Chung, Chris M. Fancher, Catherine Isaac, Jason Nikkel, Eberhard Hennig, Jacob L. Jones

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Abstract

An electric field loading stage was designed for use in a laboratory diffractometer that enables in situ investigations of the temperature dependence in the field response mechanisms of ferroelectric materials. The stage was demonstrated by measuring PbZr_1−xTi_xO₃ (PZT) based materials—a commercially available PZT and a 1% Nb-doped PbZr_0.56Ti_0.44O₃ (PZT 56/44)—over a temperature range of 25°C to 250°C. The degree of non-180° domain alignment (η₀₀₂) of the PZT as a function of temperature was quantified. η₀₀₂ of the commercially available PZT increases exponentially with temperature, and was analyzed as a thermally activated process as described by the Arrhenius law. The activation energy for thermally activated domain wall depinning process in PZT was found to be 0.47 eV. Additionally, a field-induced rhombohedral to tetragonal phase transition was observed 5°C below the rhombohedral-tetragonal transition in PZT 56/44 ceramic. The field-induced tetragonal phase fraction was increased 41.8% after electrical cycling. A large amount of domain switching (η₀₀₂=0.45 at 1.75 kV/mm) was observed in the induced tetragonal phase.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4352-4361
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume	100
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14979
State	Published - Sep 2017

Funding

The authors acknowledge support for this work from the National Science Foundation, as part of the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics under Grant Nos. IIP-1361571 and IIP-1361503. This work was performed in part at the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) at North Carolina State University, which is supported by the State of North Carolina and the National Science Foundation (award number ECCS-1542015). The AIF is a member of the North Carolina Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN), a site in the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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X-ray methods
domains
ferroelectricity/ferroelectric materials
lead zirconate titanate
phase transformations

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