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Recent Progress on BaTiO3-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications

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Gao, Jinghui, Xue, Dezhen, Liu, Wenfeng, Zhou, Chao, Ren, Xiaobing·2017·Actuators

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Due to issues with Pb toxicity, there is an urgent need for high performance Pb-free alternatives to Pb-based piezoelectric ceramics. Although pure BaTiO3 material exhibits fairly low piezoelectric coefficients, further designing of such a material system greatly enhances the piezoelectric response by means of domain engineering, defects engineering, as well as phase boundary engineering. Especially after the discovery of a Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3–x(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 system with extraordinarily high piezoelectric properties (d33 > 600 pC/N), BaTiO3-based piezoelectric ceramics are considered as one of the promising Pb-free substitutes. In the present contribution, we summarize the idea of designing high property BaTiO3 piezoceramic through domain engineering, defect-doping, as well as morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). In spite of its drawback of low Curie temperature, BaTiO3-based piezoelectric materials can be considered as an excellent model system for exploring the physics of highly piezoelectric materials. The relevant material design strategy in BaTiO3-based materials can provide guidelines for the next generation of Pb-free materials with even better piezoelectric properties that can be anticipated in the near future.

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Authors
Gao, J., Xue, D., Liu, W., Zhou, C., & Ren, X.
Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment (CN)
  • National Institute for Materials Science (JP)
Corresponding author
  • Gao, Jinghui
  • Ren, Xiaobing
Venue
Actuators
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2017-07-31
Volume
6
Issue
3
Pages
24
ISSN
2076-0825 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2741134259
Cited by
310
References
91
Citations by year
2026: 29 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 1
FWCI
9.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Actuators (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB619401)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (51571156, 51321003, 51302209, 51431007,51320105014)
  • Changing Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT13034)
  • State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment (EIPE16311)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Dielectric materials and actuators
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Multiferroics and related materials
Keywords
piezoelectric actuators, domain engineering, defect engineering, morphotropic phase boundary, Curie temperature, lead toxicity

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