Piezoelectric Properties of SrBi4Ti4O15 Ferroelectric Ceramics
Maeder, Marlyse Demartin ; Damjanovic, Dragan ; Voisard, Cyril ; Setter, Nava
In: Journal of Materials Research, 2002, vol. 17, no. 6, p. 1376-1384
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- The dynamic piezoelectric response of SrBi4Ti4O15 ceramics with Aurivillius structure was investigated at high alternating stress, low frequencies (0.01 to 100 Hz), and temperatures from 20 to 200 °C. The piezoelectric nonlinearity, observed only at high pressures (>10 MPa) and elevated temperatures (>150 °C), is interpreted in terms of contributions from non-180° domain walls. At weak fields, the frequency dependence of the longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient was explained in terms of Maxwell-Wagner piezoelectric relaxation. The Maxwell-Wagner units are identified as colonies that consist of highly anisotropic grains which sinter together, and whose distribution in the ceramic is strongly dependent on sintering conditions