Abstract
ABSTRACT Lead-free piezoelectric bismuth sodium titanate (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 (BNT) ceramics were prepared by quenching and the correlation among a depolarization temperature T d, the mechanical strength, and their piezoelectric properties were investigated. We controlled the quenching rate in the temperature range from 1100°C to 800°C. We examined the 5 patterns of the quenching rate (QR): 0.05 (ordinary firing, OF), 3.85, 5.77, 6.67, and 15.0 (quenching) oC/s. T d of the rapid quenched sample reached 229°C (QR = 15.0), but its mechanical strength decreased to a quarter of that of the OF ceramics. On the other hand, T d was 211°C at QR = 3.85 which was higher than that of OF-ceramic (QR = 0.05) at about 180°C. Moreover, three-point bending strength (227 MPa) of the quenched BNLT4 (QR = 3.85) was equivalent to that of the OF ceramics (235 MPa). Therefore, both T d and the mechanical strength were improved by controlling the quenching rate.
Highlights
Piezoelectric ceramics play a very important role in contemporary electronic devices
Lead-free piezoelectric bismuth sodium titanate (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 (BNT) ceramics were prepared by quenching and the correlation among a depolarization temperature Td, the mechanical strength, and their piezoelectric properties were investigated
Many piezoelectric devices are composed of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT)based piezoelectric solid-solution systems owing to their outstanding piezoelectric characteristics [1,2,3]
Summary
Piezoelectric ceramics play a very important role in contemporary electronic devices. It has been reported that the mechanical strength of BNT-based ceramics can be increased to over 200 MPa by controlling the grain size, additives such as Nb and processing such as hot pressing [50]. In these reports, the bending strength of BNT-based ceramics was higher than that of PZT-based ceramics. The bending strength of BNT-based ceramics was higher than that of PZT-based ceramics For this reason, BNT-based ceramics are suitable as a lead-free piezoelectric material for piezoelectric applications. We investigated the correlation between Td and the mechanical strength, and the piezoelectric properties of the quenched samples
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