Water Quenched and Acceptor‐Doped Textured Piezoelectric Ceramics for Off‐Resonance and On‐Resonance Devices

Abstract

Piezoelectric materials should simultaneously possess the soft properties (high piezoelectric coefficient, d33; high voltage coefficient, g33; high electromechanical coupling factor, k) and hard properties (high mechanical quality factor, Qm; low dielectric loss, tan δ) along with wide operation temperature (e.g., high rhombohedral–tetragonal phase transition temperature Tr–t) for covering off‐resonance (figure of merit (FOM), d33 × g33) and on‐resonance (FOM, Qm × k2) applications. However, achieving hard and soft piezoelectric properties simultaneously along with high transition temperature is quite challenging since these properties are inversely related to each other. Here, through a synergistic design strategy of combining composition/phase selection, crystallographic texturing, defect engineering, and water quenching technique, textured 2 mol% MnO2 doped 0.19PIN‐0.445PSN‐0.365PT ceramics exhibiting giant FOM values of Qm × (227–261) along with high d33 × g33 (28–35 × 10−12 m2 N−1), low tan δ (0.3–0.39%) and high Tr–t of 140–190 °C, which is far beyond the performance of the state‐of‐the‐art piezoelectric materials, are fabricated. Further, a novel water quenching (WQ) room temperature poling technique, which results in enhanced piezoelectricity of textured MnO2 doped PIN‐PSN‐PT ceramics, is reported. Based upon the experiments and phase‐field modeling, the enhanced piezoelectricity is explained in terms of the quenching‐induced rhombohedral phase formation. These findings will have tremendous impact on development of high performance off‐resonance and on‐resonance piezoelectric devices with high stability.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Nov 16, 2022
Source ID
10.1002/smll.202204454

Entities

People

  • Haoyang Leng
  • Joshua J. Fox
  • Ke Wang
  • Mark Fanton
  • Shashank Priya
  • Sumanta Kumar Karan
  • Xiaotian Li
  • Yongke Yan
  • Yu U. Wang

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Michigan Technological University
  • National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  • National Science Foundation
  • Pennsylvania State University

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Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

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Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems