Nature Communications (May 2022)

Simultaneously achieving giant piezoelectricity and record coercive field enhancement in relaxor-based ferroelectric crystals

  • Liya Yang,
  • Houbing Huang,
  • Zengzhe Xi,
  • Limei Zheng,
  • Shiqi Xu,
  • Gang Tian,
  • Yuzhi Zhai,
  • Feifei Guo,
  • Lingping Kong,
  • Yonggang Wang,
  • Weiming Lü,
  • Long Yuan,
  • Minglei Zhao,
  • Haiwu Zheng,
  • Gang Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29962-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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High-drive electromechanical applications require ferroelectrics accounting for a large coercive field and high piezoelectricity simultaneously but it is still a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate it in a relaxor-based ferroelectric crystal.