Abstract

AbstractElectrostrictive materials exhibit a strain that is proportional to the square of the induced polarization. In linear dielectrics where the permittivity is constant, this electromechanical strain is also proportional to the square of the electric field. However, under increasing amplitudes of the driving field, the electromechanical strain sometimes saturates; the electrostrictive coefficients therefore appear to depend on the amplitude of the electric field used to measure them. Here, a methodology showing that this apparent field dependence is a consequence of neglecting higher‐order electromechanical phenomena is presented. When these are taken into account, not only do the electrostrictive coefficients remain constant but the signs of the high‐order coefficients enable the prediction of the saturation behavior from a single measurement. This approach is illustrated on both classical and non‐classical (so‐called “giant”) electrostrictors.

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