Doping effects of Nb additives on the piezoelectric and dielectric properties of PZT ceramics and its application on SAW device

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 198-203

  Chu, Sheng Yuan ^a   Chen, Te Yi ^a   Tsai, I Ta ^a   Water, Walter ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNG NAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dielectric properties; Piezoelectricity; PZT; Surface acoustic wave (SAW)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; CERAMIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERING; SURFACE PHENOMENA; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

PHASE VELOCITY; PIEZOELECTRIC LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT); PZT; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES (SAW);

NIOBIUM;

EID: 2942519522     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2004.02.020     Document Type: Article

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