Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Effects of Compositional Variations on Antiferroelectric-Ferroelectric Phase Transition of PZST Ceramics

YANG Tong-Qing; YAO Xi; ZHANG Liang-Ying   

  1. Functional Materials Research Laboratory; Tongji University; Shanghai 200092; China
  • Received:1999-11-05 Revised:1999-12-10 Published:2000-10-20 Online:2000-10-20

Abstract: Phase structures,properties and critical parameters of field-induced phase transitions of PZST ceramics
near ferroelectric(FE)-antiferroelectric(AFE) phase boundary were studied as a function of composition and temperature.The electric field-induced FE
state can maintain metastable state below the critical temperature TFE-AFE after electric field is removed.As temperature increases,
the metastable FE state changes to AFE state at TFE-AFE.As Ti content increases,the structure of unpoled PZST ceramics changes from
tetragonal AFE phase to rhombohedral FE phase,dielectric constant maximum εmax and transition temperature TFE-AFE increase,
switching field EAFE-FE and EFE-AFE decrease.The forward switching field EAFE-FE and hysteresis Δ E were observed to
be dependent on TFE-AFE and Tc,respectively,and EAFE-FE and Δ E decreased with an associated increasing in TFE-AFE and decreasing in Tc

Key words: antiferroelectrics, electric field-induced phase transition, metastable state, ceramics

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