Anomalous dielectric behaviour of La(III) substituted lead titanate ceramics

Measurement of Flexoelectric Effect in Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics*

Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics is usually used as a piezoelectric material. However it has characteristics of not only piezoelectricity but also flexoelectricity. Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon that electric polarization is induced by strain, and flexoelectricity is the one that the polarization is induced by strain gradient. In this study, flexoelectricity in poled soft PZT ceramics ...

A. Response of Lead Zirconate Titanate Ceramics to Temperature Fluctuations

It has been found that some shapes of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics respond to rapid temperature fluctuations when mounted in a particular geometrical configuration. This effect is presumably caused by thermal stresses in the crystal which produce a voltage difference across the silvered surfaces. These units were originally constructed to serve as pressure transducers in a lowpressure...

Piezoelectricity in Lead-Zirconate-Titanate Ceramics – Extrinsic and Intrinsic Contributions

Structural, Dielectric And Transport Properties Of Gd- Modified Lead Zirconate Titanate [Pb1-xGdx(Zr0.65Ti0.35)1-x/4O3] Ceramics

Polycrystalline samples of Gd-modified Lead Zirconate Titanate [PGZT; Pb1-xGdx(Zr0.65Ti0.35)1-x/4O3] ceramics (where, x = 0.00, 0.06 and 0.09) were prepared using high temperature mixed oxide method at sintering temperature 1450 K. Preliminary structural analysis through X-ray diffraction technique suggests their formation in single phase tetragonal crystal system at room temperature. From the ...

Synthesis of Barium-zinc-titanate Ceramics

Mixtures of BaCO3, ZnO and TiO2 powders, with molar ratio of 1:2:4, were mechanically activated for 20, 40 and minutes in a planetary ball mill. The resulting powders were compacted into pellets and isothermally sintered at 1250 °C for 2h with a heating rate of 10 °C/min. X-ray diffraction analysis of obtained powders and sintered samples was performed in order to investigate changes of the pha...