Ultra-high piezoresponse in tantalum doped potassium sodium niobate single crystal

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Abstract

Ferroelectric materials reveal an ultra-high piezoelectric effect because of their spontaneous polarization and show high potential for applications. At present, the lead-free piezoelectric materials are in a great demand because of their environmentally friendly character, but their performance needs to be improved. Generally, in order to enhance the piezoelectric coefficients, researchers could rely on a phase boundary and/or to grow single crystals. Here, a Ta-doped (K, Na)NbO3 (KNN) single crystal with the orthorhombic-tetragonal (O-T) phase boundary is grown via the top-seed solution growth method. Excellent piezoelectric coefficients (d33 ≈ 560 pC/N via the Berlincourt method and d33* ≈ 1353 pm/V derived from strain-electric field loops) are achieved in a K0.40Na0.60Ta0.41Nb0.59O3 single crystal. What is more, with the electric field rising from 0.5 kV/cm to 4 kV/cm, the converse d33 and the strain hysteresis level improve from 580 pm/V to 640 pm/V and from 0.052 to 0.104, respectively. Our results clarify that the high d33 can be attributed to the high domain density and the labyrinthine-domain structure. In addition, the electric-field-induced phase transition is also observed, which is supposed to cause the high d33*. This work not only reports the ultra-high piezoresponse of the KNN-based single crystal but also provides strong evidence for its mesoscale origin.

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Meng, X., Hu, C., Park, D. S., Riemer, L., Chu, K., Zhou, Z., … Tian, H. (2020). Ultra-high piezoresponse in tantalum doped potassium sodium niobate single crystal. Applied Physics Letters, 116(11). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0002178

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