On the origin of high piezoelectric response in PbNi1/3Nb2/3O3-PbZrO3-PbTiO3 ternary system
摘要
Ternary alloy system PbNi1/3Nb2/3O3-PbZrO3-PbTiO3 possesses an extraordinary piezoelectric coefficient ~ 1000 pC/N at room temperature with dielectric anomaly (Tm) ~ 100 ºC. We have systematically investigated the dependence of the piezoelectric and dielectric properties of this system on different sintering environments. For a particular sintering condition, this system shows both high d33 ~ 700 pC/N and d33* ~ 2600 pm/V. We have found that the pseudocubic region in the PbNi1/3Nb2/3O3-PbZrO3-PbTiO3 phase diagram consists of a monoclinic-tetragonal morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). We employed impedance spectroscopy to explore a possible correlation between defects density and the large value of the piezoelectric constant. Materials exhibiting high d33 at room temperature show lower impedance at high temperature and lower activation energy ~ 0.70 eV for charge migration.