Effect of a transverse tensile stress on the electric-field-induced domain reorientation in soft PZT: In situ XRD study

Xiaoping Li, Wan Y. Shih, James S. Vartuli, David L. Milius, Ilhan A. Aksay, Wei Heng Shih

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Abstract

The effect of a transverse tensile stress on the electric-field-induced 90°-domain reorientation in tetragonal lead zirconate titanate (PZT) near the morphotropic phase boundary was investigated in situ using X-ray diffraction (XRD). The XRD intensity ratio, I(002)/I(200), which represents the ratio of the volume of the c-domains to that of the a-domains on the PZT surface, was examined as a function of the electric field at various stress levels. It was found that a transverse tensile stress changes the electric-field dependence of I(002)/I(200), especially at higher electric fields. Without a transverse tensile stress, I(002)/I(200) began to saturate at E ≈ 800 kV/m. With a transverse tensile stress of 75 MPa, I002/I(200) increased with an upward curvature with the electric field, indicating that the transverse tensile stress enhanced the field-induced 90°-domain reorientation, and increased the effective piezoelectric coefficients at larger electric fields. At E = 900 kV/m, the estimated d31,domain changed from -200 × 10-12 V/m at zero stress, to -350 × 10-12 V/m at 75 MPa.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)844-850
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume85
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2002

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Ceramics and Composites
  • Materials Chemistry

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