Quantitative microstructural analysis and piezoelectricity of highly dense, submicron-structured NaNbO3 ceramics from mechanically activated precursors

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2297-2308

  Moure, A ^a   Hungria T ^b   Castro, A ^b   Pardo, L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CERÁMICA Y VIDRIO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mechanical activation; Niobates; Piezoelectricity; Quantitative microstructure analysis

Indexed keywords

AT RESONANCE; AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; DENSE CERAMICS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; GRAIN SIZE; HIGHLY DENSE; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MECHANICAL ACTIVATION; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; NIOBATES; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; PRACTICAL USE; QUANTITATIVE MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSIS; REACTIVE PRECURSORS; RESIDUAL POROSITY; SUBMICRON; SUBMICRON RANGE; THERMAL TREATMENT; WET-CHEMISTRY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MECHANICAL STABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PYROELECTRICITY; SINTERING;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349245928     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. European Union Directive 2002/95/EC on the Restriction Of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS directive), available at http://www.crouzet-usa.com/RoHS.pdf.).
2. Cross E. Materials science-lead-free at last. Nature 432 (2004) 24-25
3. Saito Y., Takao H., Tani T., Nonoyama T., Takatori K., Homma T., Nagaya T., and Nakamura M. Lead-free piezoceramics. Nature 432 (2004) 84-87
4. Shrout T.R., and Zhang S.J. Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics: Alternatives for PZT?. J. Electroceram. 19 (2007) 111-124
5. Nitta T. Properties of sodium-lithium niobate solid solution ceramics with small lithium concentrations. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 51 (1968) 626-629
6. 3 ceramics. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 60 (1977) 15-17
7. Hardiman B., Henson R.M., Reeves C.P., and Zeyfang R.R. Hot-pressing of sodium lithium-niobate ceramics with perovskite-like structures. Ferroelectrics 12 (1976) 157-159
8. 3 ceramics fabricated by spark plasma sintering. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 42 (2003) 6110-6114
9. 3 lead-free ceramics prepared by spark plasma sintering. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 89 (2006) 1605-1609
10. Cross L.E., and Nicholson B. The optical and electrical properties of single crystals of sodium niobate. J. Phil. Magn. Ser. 46 (1955) 453-466
11. 3. Phys. Rev. 96 (1954) 581-588
12. 3 produced from powders prepared by a new chemical route. J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 20 (2000) 983-990
13. 3-based piezoelectric ceramics prepared from sol-gel derived powders. Ann. Chim. Sci. Mater. 23 (1998) 135-138
14. 3 powders. J. Mater. Res. 18 (2003) 338-345
15. Paula A.J., Zaghete M.A., Longo E., and Varela J.A. Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of structurally and morphologically controlled sodium niobates by using niobic acid as a precursor. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 8 (2008) 1300-1308
16. 3) powders synthesized by a wet-chemical method using a water-soluble malic acid complex. Chem. Mater. 14 (2002) 2365-2368
17. 3 powders. J. Cryst. Growth 280 (2005) 191-200
18. 3. Bull. Mater. Sci. 29 (2006) 123-125
19. Xue J.M., Wan D.M., Lee S.E., and Wang J. Inducing crystallization in an amorphous lead zirconate titanate precursor by mechanical activation. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 82 (1999) 1641-1643
20. Wang J., Xue J.M., Wan D.M., and Gan B.K. Mechanically activating nucleation and growth of complex perovskites. J. Solid State Chem. 154 (2000) 321-328
21. Alguero M., Ricote J., Hungría T., and Castro A. High-sensitivity piezoelectric, low-tolerance-factor perovskites by mechanosynthesis. Chem. Mater. 19 (2007) 4982-4990
22. 12 by alternative routes: wet no-coprecipitation chemistry and mechanochemical activation. Chem. Mater. 13 (2001) 2084-2091
23. Ng S.H., Xue J.M., and Wang J. Bismuth titanate from mechanical activation of a chemically coprecipitated precursor. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 85 (2002) 2660-2665
24. Kong L.B., Zhang T.S., Ma J., and Boey F. Progress in synthesis of ferroelectric ceramic materials via high-energy mechanochemical technique. Prog. Mater. Sci. 53 (2008) 207-322
25. Castro A., Millán P., Pardo L., and Jiménez B. Synthesis and sintering improvement of Aurivillius type structure ferroelectric ceramics by mechanochemical activation. J. Mater. Chem. 9 (1999) 1313-1317
26. Lee S.E., Xue J.M., Wan D.M., and Wang J. Effects of mechanical activation on the sintering and dielectric properties of oxide derived PZT. Acta Mater. 47 (1999) 2633-2639
27. 1-x Aurivillius type structure piezoelectric ceramics obtained from mechanochemically activated oxides. Acta Mater. 48 (2001) 2421-2428
28. Moure A., Castro A., and Pardo L. Improvement by-recrystallisation of Aurivillius-type structure piezoceramics from mechanically activated precursors. Acta Mater. 52 (2004) 945-957
29. 3. J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 27 (2007) 2265-2271
30. 3 using different ball-impact energies. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 91 (2008) 1559-1565
31. Okazaki K., and Nagata K. Effects of grain size and porosity on electrical and optical properties of PLZT ceramics. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 56 (1973) 82-86
32. Yamamoto T. Optimum preparation methods for piezoelectric ceramics and their evaluation. Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull. 71 (1992) 978-985
33. Randall C.A., Kim N., Kucera J.P., Cao W., and Shrout T.R. Intrinsic and extrinsic size effects in fine-grained morphotropic-phase-boundary lead zirconate titanate ceramics. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 81 (1998) 677-688
34. 3. J. Phys. Chem. B 109 (2005) 20122-20130
35. 3 crystallites. J. Electroceram. 19 (2007) 273-280
36. 3 and processing of environmentally friendly piezoceramics. J. Alloys Compd. 395 (2005) 166-173
37. Ricote J., and Pardo L. Microstructure-properties relationships in samarium modified lead titanate piezoceramics. 1. Quantitative study of the microstructure. Acta Mater. 44 (1996) 1155-1167
38. Kurtz S.K., and Carpay F.M.A. Microstructure and normal grain-growth in metals and ceramics 2. Experiment. J. Appl. Phys. 51 (1980) 5745-5754
39. Alemany C., Gónzalez A.M., Pardo L., Jiménez B., Carmona F., and Mendiola J. Automatic-determination of complex constants of piezoelectric lossy materials in the radial mode. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 28 (1995) 945-956
40. 4-SiC whisker composites. J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 13 (1994) 299-312
41. 9 from mechanochemically activated precursors. J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 21 (2001) 1399-1402
42. Antou G., Montavon G., Hlawka F., Cornet A., and Coddet C. Microstructures of partially stabilized zirconia manufactured via hybrid plasma spray process. Ceram. Int. 31 (2005) 611-619
43. Castro A., Jiménez B., Hungría T., Moure A., and Pardo L. Sodium niobate ceramics prepared by mechanical activation assisted methods. J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 24 (2004) 941-945
44. 3 ceramics. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 13 (2001) 3875-3881
45. 3-based solid solutions. J. Phys. Chem. Solids 63 (2002) 1939-1950
46. Leite E.R., Nobre M.A.L., Cerqueira M., Longo E., and Varela J.A. Particle growth during calcination of polycation oxides synthesized by the polymeric precursors method. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 80 (1997) 2649-2657