High piezoelectricity performance in PSBZT ceramic for ultrasonic transducer

Lead zirconate titanate(PZT)ceramics possess great potential for practical applications and thus improving their piezoelectric properties is crucial.Pb0.99−xSm0.01BaxZr0.53Ti0.47O3(PSBZT)ceramics with high Curie temperature and excellent piezoelectric properties were fabricated via a conventional solid-state method,and the effect of Ba2+doping on the structural,dielectric,piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties was studied in detail.It is shown that doping of Ba2+significantly enhanced the piezoelectric properties of PSZT,the maximum d33~533 pC/N and Tc~361°C at x=0.02 were acquired.Furthermore,PSZT and PSBZT ceramics were used to prepare single element ultrasonic transducers,and their performance were compared and evaluated.The results demonstrate that the PSBZT ceramic-based transducer possesses better sensitivity and bandwidth than the PSZT ceramic-based transducer.

Performance enhancement of ultrasonic transducer made of textured PNN-PZT ceramic

In this paper,0.36Pb(Ni_(1/3)Nb_(2/3))O_(3)-0.24PbZrO3-0.40PbTiO_(3)(PNN-PZT)ceramic was prepared,and texture engineering was performed on this PNN-PZT ceramic to improve its electromechanical properties and temperature stability.Single element ultra-sonic transducers were prepared using PNN-PZT,PNN-PZT textured ceramics,and their performance were evaluated and com-pared using a PZT-5H ceramic based transducer as the benchmark.It is shown that the sensitivity and bandwidth of the PNN-PZT textured ceramic-based transducer are much superior to regular PNN-PZT ceramic and PZT-5H ceramic based transducers.

Ultrahigh strain in textured BCZT-based lead-free ceramics with CuO sintering agent

Textured BaTiO_(3)(BT)-based lead-free ceramics have gained significant attention due to their high piezoelectric coefficient(d)and very large field induced strain(S).However,costly nano-size raw materials,excessively high sintering temperature and low Curie temperature(T_(c))hinder their device applications.In this work,highly[001]_(c)-oriented(Ba_(0.95)Ca_(0.05))(Zr_(0.04)Ti_(0.96))O_(3) ceramics with x mol%CuO(x=0.25,0.5,1.0,2.5)denoted as BCZT-x were synthesized by templated grain growth using micro-sized raw powders.The introduction of CuO sintering agent lowered the sintering temperature by 125℃ to 1450℃,and the BCZT-1.0 achieved a high texture degree of∼99%.In addition,the CuO-based liquid phases eliminated boundaries between BT templates and BCZT matrix powders.Such liquid-phase sintering reduced sintering stresses,decreased the average grain size of BCZT-1.0 from 16μm down to 13μm,and increased the dielectric dispersion coefficientγto 1.63.The almost smoothed out T_(O-T) anomaly in the temperature dependence of dielectric permittivity and comparably high T_(c)(>102℃)lead to better temperature stability.The narrower grain orientation distribution with full width at half maximum(FWHM)of∼5.9°and smaller domains with the size of 0.1–0.5μm in width and 3–8μm in length were obtained,a high field induced maximum strain S_(max) of 0.38%and low H_(s) of 5.2%have been achieved in BCZT-1.0 textured ceramics together with a high and homogeneous piezoelectric stress coefficient d_(33)∼780 pC/N and very large d_(33)∗∼2950 pm/V.