Processing and ferroelectric behavior of textured KSr2Nb5O15 ceramics
Processing and ferroelectric behavior of textured KSr2Nb5O15 ceramics
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DOI:
10.1007/s10853-006-0854-5
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发表时间:
2006-09
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4.5
通讯作者:
C. Duran
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作者:
C. Duran
<001>-textured KSr2Nb5O15(KSN) ceramics were fabricated in a matrix of SrNb2O6and KNbO3powders via reactive templated grain growth (TGG), using <001>-oriented acicular KSN particles as the template for grain growth. KSN phase formation started at 1100 °C and was complete at 1300 °C. Template particles grew at the expense of matrix grains with increasing sintering time and temperature, resulting in improved texture fraction,f. A maximum fraction of 0.98 was obtained in 1.5 wt% Nb2O5and 10 wt% template containing samples sintered at 1450 °C for 6 h. A template content of 10 wt% resulted in a high quality of texture with a narrow distribution of elongated grains in [001]. The highly textured ceramics (f≥ 0.9) had a remanent polarization of 0.19 C/m2in the polarcdirection, [001], as compared to 0.03 C/m2in the non-polaraorbdirection and 0.04 C/m2as for the random sample. The estimated saturation polarization (Psat) was 0.25 C/m2which is comparable to reported KSN single crystal value of 0.25 C/m2. This indicates that TGG is a viable method to fabricate textured ceramics having ferroelectric properties close to the single crystals.