The extraordinary performances of phase-coexisting ferroelectrics are significantly affected by not only the phase constitution but also the motion of domain walls.The study on the role of phase coexistence in the for...The extraordinary performances of phase-coexisting ferroelectrics are significantly affected by not only the phase constitution but also the motion of domain walls.The study on the role of phase coexistence in the formation of ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain microstructures is of great importance to explain the enhanced piezoelectric properties.In situ high-energy diffraction and the Rayleigh law are utilized to reveal the interplay of phase constitution and domain configuration to the macroscopic electromechanical coupling effect in the morphotropic phase boundary composition of 0.365BiScO_(3)–0.635PbTiO_(3) during the application of a weak electrical loading in the present study.It was found that anisotropic phase transition and domain switching occur in polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics and a phase transition occurs dramatically beyond the coercive field.Taking into account the important role of coupled ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain microstructures,we conceived a configuration of monoclinic domains coexisting with and bridging the tetragonal domains.The existence of bridging domains would provide an insight into the interplay of the phase and domain and explains the piezoelectric performance in the vicinity of morphotropic phase boundaries.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants 21701126,21801013,21825102,21731001,and 21590793)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Grant FRF-TP-18-001C2)+3 种基金financial support from the China Scholarship Council and the help from Naike ShiNSF’s ChemMatCARS Sector 15 is principally supported by the Divisions of Chemistry(CHE)Materials Research(DMR),National Science Foundation,under Grant No.NSF/CHE-1834750The use of the Advanced Photon Source,an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S.Department of Energy(DOE)Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory,was supported by the U.S.DOE under Contract No.DE-AC02-06CH11357.
文摘The extraordinary performances of phase-coexisting ferroelectrics are significantly affected by not only the phase constitution but also the motion of domain walls.The study on the role of phase coexistence in the formation of ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain microstructures is of great importance to explain the enhanced piezoelectric properties.In situ high-energy diffraction and the Rayleigh law are utilized to reveal the interplay of phase constitution and domain configuration to the macroscopic electromechanical coupling effect in the morphotropic phase boundary composition of 0.365BiScO_(3)–0.635PbTiO_(3) during the application of a weak electrical loading in the present study.It was found that anisotropic phase transition and domain switching occur in polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics and a phase transition occurs dramatically beyond the coercive field.Taking into account the important role of coupled ferroelectric and ferroelastic domain microstructures,we conceived a configuration of monoclinic domains coexisting with and bridging the tetragonal domains.The existence of bridging domains would provide an insight into the interplay of the phase and domain and explains the piezoelectric performance in the vicinity of morphotropic phase boundaries.
