Temperature scaling of dynamic hysteresis in Zr-rich PbZr1−xTixO3 ceramics

Abstract

The temperature scaling relations of the dynamic hysteresis were investigated in Zr-rich lead zirconate titanate (PZT) bulk ceramics. At each relation curve, there is a discontinuous district corresponding to the low- and high-temperature phase transitions. The temperatures are divided into low-T region and high-T region. At each temperature region, three power-law scaling relations were obtained for hysteresis area ⟨A⟩, coercivity Ec, and remnant polarization Pr with T, respectively. The six temperature scaling relations are field dependent and the simplified forms are different from the results obtained from the soft and hard PZT ceramics.