Creation and destruction of morphotropic phase boundaries through electrical poling: A case study of lead-free (Bi 1/2Na 1/2)TiO 3-BaTiO 3 piezoelectrics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Ma, Cheng ^a   Guo, Hanzheng ^a   Beckman, Scott P ^a   Tan, Xiaoli ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATIO; DOMAIN MORPHOLOGY; ELECTRICAL POLING; FERROELECTRIC TRANSITION; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION; LEAD-FREE; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; MORPHOTROPIC PHASE BOUNDARIES; PIEZOELECTRIC BEHAVIOR; PIEZOELECTRICS; POLING FIELD; POLING PROCESS; STRAIN BEHAVIORS; TIO;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FERROELECTRICITY; IN SITU PROCESSING; PHASE BOUNDARIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SODIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84866077610     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.107602     Document Type: Article

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