Fatigue in ferroelectric ceramics is the gradual change of material properties with cyclic
loading. It is caused by microscopic material modifications of mechanical or electrical origin …

Ferroelectric materials have attracted interest for over a hundred years as a result of their
spontaneous polarization and a polarization orientation that can be reversed by the …

Piezoelectric actuators convert electrical into mechanical energy and are implemented for
many large-scale applications such as piezoinjectors and ink jet printers. The performance …

The existence of domain walls, which separate regions of different polarization, can
influence the dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric and electronic properties, of ferroelectric …

A lead‐free relaxor (RE)/ferroelectric (FE) 0–3 composite was developed with a large strain
that resulted from the electric‐field‐induced ergodic relaxor‐to‐ferroelectric phase transition …

This paper deals with the influence of preload stress on the ferroelectric hysteretic behavior
of piezoelectric ceramics. The polarization and strain versus electric field hysteresis loops …

The longitudinal strain and polarization of a soft polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramic (lead
zirconate titanate, PZT) were measured under uniaxial compressive stress at elevated …

High-energy x-ray-diffraction experiments performed on rhombohedral Pb (Zn 1/3 Nb 2/3) 1−
x Ti x O 3 (PZN− x% PT) crystals with x= 4.5% and 8% show that an electric field applied …

There has been considerable progress in the development of large strain lead-free
perovskite ferroelectrics over the past decade. Under certain conditions, the …

Understanding the electromechanical response of bulk polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics
requires scale-bridging approaches. Recent advances in fast numerical methods to compute …