Fatigue endurance enhancement of Sn-doped Pb(Lu1/2Nb1/2)O3-PbTiO3 ceramics

Chenxi Wang; Chao He; Zujian Wang; Xiuzhi Li; Xiaoming Yang; Ying Liu; Xifa Long

doi:10.1039/c8ra00732b

Fatigue endurance enhancement of Sn-doped Pb(Lu_1/2Nb_1/2)O₃-PbTiO₃ ceramics

RSC Adv. 2018 Mar 26;8(21):11633-11642. doi: 10.1039/c8ra00732b. eCollection 2018 Mar 21.

Authors

Chenxi Wang^{1

2}, Chao He¹, Zujian Wang¹, Xiuzhi Li¹, Xiaoming Yang¹, Ying Liu¹, Xifa Long¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou 350002 Fujian China hechao@fjirsm.ac.cn lxf@fjirsm.ac.cn.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.

Abstract

Several mechanisms and methods have been proposed to study the nature of electric fatigue in ferroelectric materials with perovskite structure, including defect agglomeration, field screening and the reorientation of defect dipoles. To ascertain the effect of defect, defect dipoles in particular on the fatigue behavior in perovskite ferroelectrics, 0.51Pb(Lu_1/2Nb_1/2)O₃-0.49PbTi_1-x Sn _x O₃ ferroelectric ceramics were fabricated in this work. It is found that the fatigue endurance has been enhanced after Sn-doping. An abnormal strong self-rejuvenation of polarization was also detected for un-poled and un-aged samples resulting from the reorientation of defect dipoles. The defect dipoles were determined by the confirmed change of the valence of Sn ions and the appearance of oxygen vacancies. The reorientation was also confirmed by the internal bias of P-E hysteresis loops during the fatigue process. With more Sn doped into the matrix, the symmetry changed from a coexistence of rhombohedral and tetragonal phase to a rhombohedral phase. The remnant polarization decreased, while the coercive field first decreased then increased as x increased, which resulted from the composition variance and the effect of defect dipoles. It indicates that the defect dipoles play an important role in the electric fatigue behavior of Sn-doping PLN-PT ceramics.