Abstract
Lead-free ferroelectric materials of sodium-potassium bismuth titanate, (1-x)NBT-xKBT systems were synthesized by a hydrothermal process. In this way, the appropriate conditions for the hydrothermal synthesis of NBT and KBT (i.e., concentrations of synthetic precursors, solution pH and temperature) are given graphically. Ceramics of (1-x)NBT-xKBT with (x(mol.%) = 0; 12; 16; 20; 30 and 100) were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The rhombohedral-tetragonal morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) was confirmed to be in the region of 0.12 ≤ x ≤ 0.20 for (1-x)NBT-xKBT at ambient temperature. Scherrer's formula and the Williamson-Hall (W-H) analysis were used to examine the average crystallite size and lattice strain. Raman spectroscopy was effectively applied to study the structural evolution of the (1-x)NBT-xKBT phase. The ceramics exhibited a high temperature of maximum dielectric permittivity at (Tmax = 343 °C at 100 kHz) along with electromechanical coupling factors (kp = 0.34, d33 = 147 pC/N). Based on the composition of all specimens, the results indicate a diffuse phase transition, probably of second order, between ferroelectric and paraelectric phases.
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