Anomalies of the pyroelectric and dielectric properties of ferroelectric ceramics of the PbZr1-x Ti x O3 system with 0.06 ≤ x ≤ 0.35 at the R3c↔R3m phase transition

Abstract

The temperature dependences of the pyroelectric and dielectric properties of ferroelectric ceramics of the PbZr1 − x Ti x O3 binary system with x = 0.06, 0.07, 0.08, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.25, 0.3, and 0.35 have been obtained synchronously for each sample in the range of the structural phase transition between the states with the symmetry space groups R3c ↔ R3m. It is established that the temperatures of this phase transition for unpolarized and polarized samples coincide in the range 0.06 ≤ x ≤ 0.15. In this case, the x−T phase diagram, constructed on the basis of the pyroelectric and dielectric data, is in excellent agreement with the X-ray diffraction data on single crystals in this concentration range. The effect of dc electric fields from 5 × 105 V m−1 did not lead to any temperature shifts of the R3c ↔ R3m phase transition for the compositions with 0.06 ≤ x ≤ 0.25.