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Domain Morphology and Piezoelectric Properties of Si-doped PMS-PZT Piezoelectric Ceramics Affected by Grain Boundary Action

ZHU Zhi-Gang; LI Bao-Shan; LI Guo-Rong; ZHENG Liao-Ying; YIN Qing-Rui   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 200050; China
  • Received:2004-04-20 Revised:2004-05-21 Published:2005-05-20 Online:2005-05-20

Abstract: The microstructure, phase properties and domain morphology of Si-doped PMS-PZT ceramics were
investigated by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS). XRD results
indicate that all specimens show perovskite structure and tetragonal distortion (c/a) increases as the dopant content increases. TEM results
show that domain morphology evolves from the normal herringbone domain to micron-sized lenticular shape domain structure, and finally changes to
“wavy” pattern as SiO2 content changes from 0--1wt%. The nano-scale secondary phases of SiO2 and PbSiO3 were observed on the
grain boundary, and the twinned ZrO2 was found surrounded by PMS-PZT perovskite phase. The mechanism of the appearance of twinned ZrO2
and its content increase with the increase of Si concentration were discussed.

Key words: PMS-PZT, TEM, piezoelectric, domain structure

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