Journal of Advanced Dielectrics (Oct 2023)

High piezoelectricity performance in PSBZT ceramic for ultrasonic transducer

  • Shengpeng Han,
  • Guicheng Jiang,
  • Yan Zhu,
  • Yingchun Liu,
  • Hongjun Zhang,
  • Lang Bian,
  • Danqing Liu,
  • Ye Sun,
  • Limei Zheng,
  • Bin Yang,
  • Wenwu Cao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010135X23500121
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 05

Abstract

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Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics possess great potential for practical applications and thus improving their piezoelectric properties is crucial. [Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text][Formula: see text]O3 (PSBZT) ceramics with high Curie temperature and excellent piezoelectric properties were fabricated via a conventional solid-state method, and the effect of Ba[Formula: see text] doping on the structural, dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties was studied in detail. It is shown that doping of Ba[Formula: see text] significantly enhanced the piezoelectric properties of PSZT, the maximum [Formula: see text]533 pC/N and [Formula: see text]361[Formula: see text]C at [Formula: see text]= 0.02 were acquired. Furthermore, PSZT and PSBZT ceramics were used to prepare single element ultrasonic transducers, and their performance were compared and evaluated. The results demonstrate that the PSBZT ceramic-based transducer possesses better sensitivity and bandwidth than the PSZT ceramic-based transducer.

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