Temperature stability of the piezoelectric and elastic response of dc biased 001 and 110 oriented Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O-3-PbTiO3 single crystals

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2004-11-01
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American Institute of Physics
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Temperature and field dependent investigations of the longitudinal electromechanical properties of [001]- and [110]-oriented 0.955Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O-3-0.045PbTiO(3) single crystals have been performed. Electromechanical equivalence was found between [001] and [110] orientations in the ferroelectric rhombohedral FEr phase region, but not in the ferroelectric tetragonal FEt one. A dc bias of 0.4 MV/m did not affect this equivalence. Softening of the dielectric constant (K), piezoelectric coefficient (d(33)), and Young's modulus (Y) were observed along both the [001] and [110] orientations in the FEr phase region on heating towards the FEt one. Above the FEr-FEt phase transition, a significant anisotropy was observed in the electromechanical and elastic coefficients. These results demonstrate that the enhanced length extensional (33-mode) electromechanical coupling k(33) of rhombohedral crystals far from the morphotropic phase boundary is not constrained to the <001> orientation, but rather to the (110) plane. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.

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Ferroelectricity, Elasticity, Piezoelectricity, Dielectric constant, Single crystals
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Amin, A., Viehland, D. (2004). Temperature stability of the piezoelectric and elastic response of dc biased 001 and 110 oriented Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O-3-PbTiO3 single crystals. Journal of Applied Physics, 96(9), 5140-5143. doi: 10.1063/1.1789271