Domain disruption and defect accumulation during unipolar electric fatigue in a BZT-BCT ceramic

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2017-12-01
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Fan, Zhongming
Zhou, Chao
Ren, Xiaobing
Tan, Xiaoli
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0.5Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O30.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BZT-BCT) is a promising lead-free piezoelectric ceramic with excellent piezoelectric properties (e.g., d33 > 600 pC/N). As potential device applications are considered, the electric fatigue resistance of the ceramic must be evaluated. In this Letter, electric-field in situ transmission electron microscopy is employed to study the microstructural evolution in the BZT-BCT polycrystalline ceramic during unipolar cycling. It is shown that the large ferroelectric domains are disrupted and replaced with accumulated defect clusters and fragmented domains after 5 × 104 unipolar cycles. In this fatigued state, the grain becomes nonresponsive to applied voltages.

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This article is published as Fan, Zhongming, Chao Zhou, Xiaobing Ren, and Xiaoli Tan. "Domain disruption and defect accumulation during unipolar electric fatigue in a BZT-BCT ceramic." Applied Physics Letters 111, no. 25 (2017): 252902. doi: 10.1063/1.5008619. Posted with permission.

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