Low temperature sintering and enhanced piezoelectricity of lead-free (Na 0.52 K 0.4425 Li 0.0375)(Nb 0.86 Ta 0.06 Sb 0.08) O 3 ceramics prepared from nano-powders

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3470-3475

  Huan, Yu ^a   Wang, Xiaohui ^a   Guo, Limin ^a   Li, Longtu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW-TEMPERATURE SINTERING; LOWER TEMPERATURES; NANO POWDERS; PIEZOELECTRIC PROPERTY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINTERING TEMPERATURES; SOLID STATE REACTION METHOD; TETRAGONAL PHASE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LITHIUM; MICROSTRUCTURE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWDERS; SINTERING; SODIUM; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLID STATE REACTIONS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84887817879     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jace.12499     Document Type: Article

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