Recent development in lead-free perovskite piezoelectric bulk materials

T Zheng, J Wu, D Xiao, J Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
The elimination of lead in piezoelectric applications remains challenging. Since the
advances in the piezoelectricity were found in the perovskite family in 2000, studies into lead …

Progress in high-strain perovskite piezoelectric ceramics

J Hao, W Li, J Zhai, H Chen - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2019 - Elsevier
High strain piezoelectric ceramics are the state-of-the-art materials for high precision,
positioning devices. A comprehensive review of the latest developments of the various types …

High-electromechanical performance for high-power piezoelectric applications: Fundamental, progress, and perspective

L Chen, H Liu, H Qi, J Chen - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric materials with excellent electromechanical performance are widely used as
core components in high-power applications such as ultrasonic transducers, piezoelectric …

Evolution from lead‐based to lead‐free piezoelectrics: engineering of lattices, domains, boundaries, and defects leading to giant response

M Waqar, H Wu, J Chen, K Yao, J Wang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric materials are known to mankind for more than a century, with numerous
advancements made in both scientific understandings and practical applications. In the last …

Potassium–sodium niobate lead-free piezoelectric materials: past, present, and future of phase boundaries

J Wu, D Xiao, J Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
High-performance piezoceramics are some of the most important and widely used materials,
and as such research into this topic is at the forefront of high-technology advanced …

Nano-domains in lead-free piezoceramics: a review

X Lv, X Zhang, J Wu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Reducing or even prohibiting the use of toxic lead in electronic devices has become one of
the most cutting-edge topics in various disciplines. The recently proposed phase boundary …

Losses in ferroelectric materials

G Liu, S Zhang, W Jiang, W Cao - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ferroelectric materials are the best dielectric and piezoelectric materials known today. Since
the discovery of barium titanate in the 1940s, lead zirconate titanate ceramics in the 1950s …

Phase diagram of the ferroelectric relaxor (1− x) PbMg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3− x PbTiO 3

B Noheda, DE Cox, G Shirane, J Gao, ZG Ye - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
Synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction measurements have been performed on unpoled
ceramic samples of (1− x) Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3− x PbTiO 3 (PMN-xPT) with 3 0%<~ x<~ 3 …

Structure and high-piezoelectricity in lead oxide solid solutions

B Noheda - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2002 - Elsevier
A review of the recent advances in the understanding of piezoelectricity in lead oxide solid
solutions is presented, giving special attention to the structural aspects. It has now become …

Low-field-driven large strain in lead zirconate titanium-based piezoceramics incorporating relaxor lead magnesium niobate for actuation

Y Jiang, MH Zhang, CF Wu, Z Xu, Z Li, JT Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Studies on the piezoelectric materials capable of efficiently outputting high electrostrains at
low electric fields are driven by the demand for precise actuation in a wide range of …