Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Deciphering the phase transition-induced ultrahigh piezoresponse in (K,Na)NbO3-based piezoceramics

  • Mao-Hua Zhang,
  • Chen Shen,
  • Changhao Zhao,
  • Mian Dai,
  • Fang-Zhou Yao,
  • Bo Wu,
  • Jian Ma,
  • Hu Nan,
  • Dawei Wang,
  • Qibin Yuan,
  • Lucas Lemos da Silva,
  • Lovro Fulanović,
  • Alexander Schökel,
  • Peitao Liu,
  • Hongbin Zhang,
  • Jing-Feng Li,
  • Nan Zhang,
  • Ke Wang,
  • Jürgen Rödel,
  • Manuel Hinterstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31158-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Functional oxides with coexisting states of comparable energy typically exhibit extraordinary responses to external stimuli. Here, the authors demonstrate that coexisting phase structures provide large electric field-triggered volume change.