Abstract
New lead-free ceramics (1–x)NaNbO3–xBi0.5K0.5TiO3 have been fabricated by the conventional ceramic sintering technique, and their ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties have been studied. The results of X-ray diffraction reveal that Bi0.5K0.5TiO3 diffuses into the NaNbO3 lattices to form a new perovskite-type solid solution with orthorhombic symmetry. The addition of a small amount of Bi0.5K0.5TiO3 (x ≥ 0.025) transforms the ceramics from antiferroelectric to ferroelectric. The ceramic with x = 0.10 possesses the largest remanent polarization Pr and thus exhibits the optimum piezoelectric properties, giving d33 = 71 pC/N, kp = 16.6% and kt = 39.7%. The ceramics with low doping level of Bi0.5K0.5TiO3 are normal ferroelectrics and the ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition becomes diffusive gradually with the doping level x of Bi0.5K0.5TiO3 increasing. Our results show the (1–x)NaNbO3–xBi0.5K0.5TiO3 ceramics is one of the good candidates for lead-free piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials.
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