Abstract
AbstractLead free piezoelectric single crystals of sodium potassium niobate (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 (KNN) were grown by high‐temperature solution method using two different fluxes; one with a mixture of NaF and KF and other with addition of B2O3 along with the mixture. In the present study, the growth of KNN crystals without B2O3 flux and the same with B2O3 flux were compared. It was found that additions of small amounts of B2O3 lowered the melting temperature of the solid solution and enabled better dielectric properties. Phase analysis showed that all samples were crystallized in pure orthorhombic perovskite phase. AFM morphological studies showed that the addition of B2O3 flux increased the roughness of the grown crystal. Further, addition of B2O3 flux slightly decreased the orthorhombic to tetragonal phase transition temperature T(O—T) and the Curie temperature TC. The ferroelectric behaviour of KNN single crystal has been investigated at room temperature. The crystal grown using B2O3 flux exhibited a remanent polarization (Pr) ∼ 32 μC/cm2 and coercive field (Ec) of ∼11.8 kV/cm whereas the crystal grown without the use of B2O3 flux had a remanent polarization (Pr) ∼ 36 μC/cm2 and coercive field (Ec) of ∼14.6 kV/cm.
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