Fracture behavior in electrically poled alkaline bismuth-and potassium-based lead-free piezoceramics using Vickers indentation

X Wang, LK Venkataraman, C Tan, Y Li - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The fracture behavior of unpoled and electrically poled Ka 0.5 Na 0.5 NbO 3 (KNN)-and Na
1/2 Bi 1/2 TiO 3 (NBT)-based lead-free piezoceramics were characterized using the Vicker's …

Dislocation toughening in single‐crystal KNbO3

O Preuß, E Bruder, W Lu, F Zhuo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The growing research interest in dislocation‐tuned functionality in ceramics is evident, with
the most recent proofs‐of‐concept for enhanced ferroelectric properties, electrical …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical characterization of piezoelectric materials: A perspective on deformation behavior across different microstructural length scales

VS Kathavate, KE Prasad, MSRN Kiran… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Piezoelectric materials (PEMs) find a wide spectrum of applications that include, but are not
limited to, sensors, actuators, semiconductors, memory devices, and energy harvesting …

Temperature dependent fracture toughness of KNN-based lead-free piezoelectric ceramics

Y Li, Y Liu, PE Öchsner, D Isaia, Y Zhang, KE Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
The fracture toughness of unpoled and electrically poled lead-free KNN-based piezoelectric
ceramics with the composition of 0.92 KNN-0.02 Bi 0.5 Li 0.5 TiO 3-0.06 BaZrO 3 was …

Revisiting lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate piezoceramics for low-frequency mechanical vibration-based energy harvesting

A Kumar, PS De, A Roy - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
Here we report the structural, electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical characterization
of pyrochlore-free (1− x) Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3)-xPbTiO 3 at x= 0.3 (PMN-0.3 PT), from the …

[HTML][HTML] Switching the fracture toughness of single-crystal ZnS using light irradiation

T Zhu, K Ding, Y Oshima, A Amiri, E Bruder… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
An enormous change in the dislocation-mediated plasticity has been found in a bulk
semiconductor that exhibits the photoplastic effect. Herein, we report that UV (365 nm) light …

[HTML][HTML] Role of matrix phase and electric field gradient in Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3BaTiO3: ZnO composites

LK Venkataraman, T Frömling, J Rödel - Journal of Materiomics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Na 1/2 Bi 1/2 TiO 3-based materials exhibit potential for applications in high-power
ultrasonics. The composites of Na 1/2 Bi 1/2 TiO 3-yBaTiO 3 (NBTyBT; y denotes mole%) …

Dislocation toughening in single‐crystal KNbO₃

O Preuß, E Bruder, W Lu, F Zhuo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
The growing research interest in dislocation‐tuned functionality in ceramics is evident, with
the most recent proofs‐of‐concept for enhanced ferroelectric properties, electrical …

Electrical boundary condition at the crack surface in ferroelectrics

Y Li, Z Chen, X Wang, J Wang - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical boundary condition (EBC) at the crack surface has significant influence on the
fracture behavior of ferroelectrics. Here, we characterized the electrical displacement (ED) …

Structural and electromechanical characterization of lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-0.3 PT) piezoceramic for energy harvesting applications

A Kumar, A Roy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04313, 2022 - arxiv.org
Efficient mechanical energy harvesting using the principle of piezoelectric effect demands
specific material-property requirements. This includes a combination of large piezoelectric …