Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Textured ferroelectric ceramics with high electromechanical coupling factors over a broad temperature range

  • Shuai Yang,
  • Jinglei Li,
  • Yao Liu,
  • Mingwen Wang,
  • Liao Qiao,
  • Xiangyu Gao,
  • Yunfei Chang,
  • Hongliang Du,
  • Zhuo Xu,
  • Shujun Zhang,
  • Fei Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21673-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Only a few relaxors can be grown into crystals, which show high piezoelectricity, but their operable temperature range is limited by the low phase transition temperature. Here, the authors develop an approach to fabricate textured relaxor ceramics with elevated phase transition temperatures.