Bismuth titanate-based high temperature piezoceramics: Domain structure and polarization dynamics

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Domain structures in BIT perovskite piezoelectrics were probed by PFM and TEM techniques. The TEM experimental results show that there mainly exist (110)-type 90 degree domain walls in the pure BIT ceramics. However, for the doped BIT ceramics, numerous (001)-type 180 degree domain walls appear on the lateral planes of grains. These domain walls were further examined by 3D PFM experiments, whose spatially visualized models were successfully established combined with the atomic observations of ion displacement and polarization shift via STEM. In addition, the polarization switching of BIT ceramics was initially investigated by a conductive PFM probe, which reveals the independent switching behaviors of polarization vector along a-axis and c-axis of unit cell.