Abstract
Powerful tools like Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and DTA seem to be under-utilized for the emerging materials for high temperature piezoelectric sensors, while thermal aspects of such piezoelectric phase change are also of theoretical interest. Curie temperature of Lead Meta-Niobate (PbNb 2O 6 or PN) is 570 °C, much higher than that for widely used lead zirconate titanate, making PN potentially more attractive at high temperatures. However, the only specific heat measurement for PN appears to be the 2–25 K study by Lawless, leaving the Curie temperature region unexplored. For PN, piezoelectricity is possible for the meta-stable orthorhombic structure only. So, we prepared pure phase orthorhombic PN by quenching (Q) and the rhombohedral PN by slow-cooling (S). We report for the first time, to our knowledge, DSC across the Curie temperature for Q and S types of PN. We find clear and interesting DSC signals at the Curie temperature in heating and cooling graphs for quenched (Q) PbNb 2O 6 only and none for the slow-cooled (S) PbNb 2O 6.
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