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Yang, Su-Chul; Kumar, Ashok; Petkov, Valeri; Priya, Shashank (American Institute of Physics, 2013-04-14)
In this paper, single-phase multiferroic ceramics of (1 - x) BaTiO3 - x BiFeO3 (BT - x BFO) were synthesized by solid-solution method in the wide range of material composition (x = 0.025 - 1.0). The changes in crystal structure were confirmed via X-ray diffractions (XRD) and atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs). The room-temperature ME coupling was found to exhibit significant magnitude in the narrow composition window (x = 0.71 - 0.8) where the average crystal structure was found to be rhombohedral. Especially, the BT - 0.725 BFO ceramics containing local monoclinic distortions within rhombohedral phase were found to exhibit high room-temperature ME coefficient (alpha(ME)) of 0.87mV/cm.Oe with high piezoelectric properties (g(33) = 18.5 x 10 mV m N-1 and d(33) = 124 pC N-1). We believe that the high room-temperature ME coupling in single-phase lead-free BT-BFO ceramics provides a possibility of developing electrically or magnetically tunable thin-film devices. (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4799591]