Abstract
Effects of 0.5 wt% CuO addition on the sintering, structural and electrical properties of perovskite layer structured (PLS) Sr2Nb2O7 ceramics prepared by solid-state reaction method are investigated. The addition of CuO is beneficial to the liquid phase bridge formation at sintering process, leading to lower sintering temperature of 1180°C and larger bulk density up to 98%. Meanwhile, CuO modified Sr2Nb2O7 ceramics show a remarkable d33 of (1.1 ± 0.1) pC/N while still with a very high Tc of (1340 ± 2)°C. Raman spectra indicate that the improvement of piezoelectricity could be attributed to the rotation and/or distortion of oxygen octahedron caused by possible Cu2+ substitution at the A-sites of Sr2Nb2O7.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2397-2401 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Ceramic Society |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jun 2017 |
Keywords
- densification
- electrical properties
- layered ceramics
- materials/properties
- piezoelectric