Abstract
The effect of (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 (KNN) addition on the ferroelectric and dielectric behavior of 90Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–10SrTiO3 (BNT–ST) lead-free piezoceramics was investigated. Polarization and strain hysteresis loops indicate that a relaxor-antiferroelectric coherence will be produced with the addition of KNN as a replacement for ST up to 5% and the destabilization of the phase coherence is accompanied by an enhancement of the bipolar strain with the increase of temperature, which is ∼0.37% (corresponding to a large signal d33* of ∼530 pm/V at 90 °C) at 5 mol. % KNN content. This strain was analyzed as derived from an electrostrictive effect at lower electric fields and a field-induced antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition at higher electric fields. The large polar strain response would be of great interest for environmental friendly high-temperature actuators.
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