Abstract
Pb0.99(SnxZr0.95−xTi0.05)0.98Nb0.02O3 (PNZST(x), 0.10 ≤ x ≤ 0.18) ceramics were fabricated by conventional solid state reaction method. Effects of tin (Sn) doping and its content x on their structure, phase transition behavior, and electrical properties were investigated. Analysis of X-ray diffraction patterns and Rietveld refinement results confirmed the crystal structures of different phases and also compositional driven phase transitions. The results indicated that with the increase in the value of x, orthorhombic phase was transformed into distorted tetragonal phase through rhombohedral phase. Ceramics exhibited the orthorhombic–rhombohedral phase coexistence for 0.10 ≤ x ≤ 0.16, and orthorhombic–rhombohedral–distorted tetragonal multiphase coexistence for x = 0.18. Although the orthorhombic antiferroelectric (AFE) phase was the major phase, no double hysteresis loops were detected through electrical hysteresis loop measurements because the electric field-induced AFE to ferroelectric (FE) phase transition occurred under the applied electric field, and the induced FE phase could not reverse back to AFE state after the removal of electric field. However, the trace of AFE behavior could be observed at a lower testing electric field. Moreover, increasing Sn content led to linear increment in phase transition temperature of FERL-FERH, up to 98.7 °C for x = 0.18.
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