Recent development in lead-free perovskite piezoelectric bulk materials

T Zheng, J Wu, D Xiao, J Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
The elimination of lead in piezoelectric applications remains challenging. Since the
advances in the piezoelectricity were found in the perovskite family in 2000, studies into lead …

[HTML][HTML] BaTiO3-based piezoelectrics: Fundamentals, current status, and perspectives

M Acosta, N Novak, V Rojas, S Patel, R Vaish… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present a critical review that encompasses the fundamentals and state-of-the-art
knowledge of barium titanate-based piezoelectrics. First, the essential crystallography …

Evolution from lead‐based to lead‐free piezoelectrics: engineering of lattices, domains, boundaries, and defects leading to giant response

M Waqar, H Wu, J Chen, K Yao, J Wang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric materials are known to mankind for more than a century, with numerous
advancements made in both scientific understandings and practical applications. In the last …

Potassium–sodium niobate lead-free piezoelectric materials: past, present, and future of phase boundaries

J Wu, D Xiao, J Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
High-performance piezoceramics are some of the most important and widely used materials,
and as such research into this topic is at the forefront of high-technology advanced …

Recent Progress on BaTiO3-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications

J Gao, D Xue, W Liu, C Zhou, X Ren - Actuators, 2017 - mdpi.com
Due to issues with Pb toxicity, there is an urgent need for high performance Pb-free
alternatives to Pb-based piezoelectric ceramics. Although pure BaTiO3 material exhibits …

Phase transitions and the piezoelectricity around morphotropic phase boundary in Ba (Zr0. 2Ti0. 8) O3-x (Ba0. 7Ca0. 3) TiO3 lead-free solid solution

L Zhang, M Zhang, L Wang, C Zhou, Z Zhang… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, two displacive phase transitions around the morphotropic phase boundary
(MPB) in Ba (Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8) O 3-x (Ba 0.7 Ca 0.3) TiO 3 (BZT-xBCT) ceramics were detected …

Relationship between electromechanical properties and phase diagram in the Ba (Zr0. 2Ti0. 8) O3–x (Ba0. 7Ca0. 3) TiO3 lead-free piezoceramic

M Acosta, N Novak, W Jo, J Rödel - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ba (Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8) O 3–x (Ba 0.7 Ca 0.3) TiO 3 system was synthesized in a wide
compositional range in order to study the relationship between its phase diagram and …

Effect of poling process on piezoelectric properties of sol–gel derived BZT–BCT ceramics

JP Praveen, T Karthik, AR James… - Journal of the European …, 2015 - Elsevier
Lead free piezoelectric ceramics barium zirconate titanate–barium calcium titanate,[xBZT–
(1− x) BCT](0.48≤ x≤ 0.52), were synthesized by sol–gel method. Calcination of the as …

Enhanced ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of BCT-BZT at the morphotropic phase boundary driven by the coexistence of phases with different symmetries

S Dash, DK Pradhan, S Kumari, Ravikant… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The discovery of lead-free piezoelectric materials is crucial for future information and energy
storage applications. Enhanced piezoelectric and other physical properties are commonly …

Origin of the large piezoelectric activity in (1− x) Ba (Z r 0.2 T i 0.8) O 3-x (B a 0.7 C a 0.3) Ti O 3 ceramics

M Acosta, N Khakpash, T Someya, N Novak, W Jo… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The diffusionless pseudobinary phase diagram, monodomain properties, and free energy of
(1− x) Ba (Z r 0.2 T i 0.8) O 3-x (B a 0.7 C a 0.3) Ti O 3 are computed for comparison with …