Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure

AA Bokov, ZG Ye - Journal of materials science, 2006 - Springer
Relaxor ferroelectrics were discovered almost 50 years ago among the complex oxides with
perovskite structure. In recent years this field of research has experienced a revival of …

One hundred years of diffuse scattering

TR Welberry, T Weber - Crystallography Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Over the 100 years since the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, structure
determination based on the analysis of Bragg peaks has grown into a very precise, widely …

Piezoelectric composites for sensor and actuator applications

EK Akdogan, M Allahverdi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last 25 years, piezoelectric ceramic-polymer composites have been conceptualized,
prototyped, fabricated, and implemented in an array of applications encompassing medical …

Electric-field-induced redistribution of polar nano-regions in a relaxor ferroelectric

G Xu, Z Zhong, Y Bing, ZG Ye, G Shirane - Nature materials, 2006 - nature.com
Relaxor ferroelectrics, with their strong dependence of polarization on the applied electric
field, are of considerable technological importance. On a microscopic scale, however, there …

Neutron elastic diffuse scattering study of

G Xu, G Shirane, JRD Copley, PM Gehring - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
We have performed elastic diffuse neutron-scattering studies on the relaxor Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb
2/3) O 3. The measured intensity distribution near a (100) Bragg peak in the (hk0) scattering …

X-ray and neutron diffraction investigations of the structural phase transformation sequence under electric field in 0.7 Pb (Mg1∕ 3Nb2∕ 3)-0.3 PbTiO3 crystal

F Bai, N Wang, J Li, D Viehland, PM Gehring… - Journal of Applied …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The structural phase transformations of 0.7 Pb (Mg 1∕ 3 Nb 2∕ 3) O 3-0.3 PbTiO 3 (PMN-
30% PT) have been studied using x-ray diffraction (XRD) and neutron scattering as a …

High recoverable energy storage density and large energy efficiency simultaneously achieved in BaTiO3–Bi (Zn1/2Zr1/2) O3 relaxor ferroelectrics

Q Wang, PM Gong, CM Wang - Ceramics International, 2020 - Elsevier
Relaxor ferroelectrics have attracted much attention as electric energy storage materials for
intermittent energy storage because of their high saturated polarization, near-zero remnant …

Domain structure of studied by piezoresponse force microscopy

VV Shvartsman, AL Kholkin - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
High-resolution domain studies have been performed on 0.8 Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3− 0.2
PbTiO 3 (0.8 PMN-0.2 PT) single crystals via piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). A …

Random fields in relaxor ferroelectrics—a jubilee review

W Kleemann - Journal of Advanced Dielectrics, 2012 - World Scientific
Substitutional charge disorder as in PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3, structural cation vacancies as in Sr x
Ba 1-x Nb 2 O 6 and isovalent substitution of off-centered cations as in BaTi 1-x Sn x O 3 and …

A coupled microstructural-structural mechanism governing thermal depolarization delay in Na0. 5Bi0. 5TiO3-based piezoelectrics

DK Khatua, A Mishra, N Kumar, GD Adhikary… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Driven by environmental concerns and governmental directives, a sustained research effort
in the last decade and half has led to the development of lead-free alternatives which can …