• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.29 no.9
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• pp.675-680
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• 1992

The purpose of this investigation was to study the stability of perovskite structure, the variation of electrical properties and a microstructure with varing amount of PbTiO3 additive in PZN-PT-BT system. The results are as follows: 1. The pyrochlore phase was reduced as the amount of PbTiO3 additive was increased and completely eliminated at 0.15PT in PZN-PT-BT system. 2. The aging rate was increased in proportion to tetragonality because the internal stress was increased in proportion to tetragonality. 3. On increasing the amount of PbTiO3 additive, the Curie temperature was increased in proportion to tetragonality. 4. As the amount of PT in the composition increase, the variation of dielectric constant was sharpened and the diffuseness of the transition decreased.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.334-337
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• 2004

Perovskite PMN-PZT-based ceramics were prepared and the$ MnO_2$ doping effects on their piezoelectric properties were investigated. Grain size decreased with increasing the $MnO_2$ content, and the pyrochlore phase was not identified in the sintered PMN-PZT ceramics with 0.01～1.0wt% $MnO_2$. Piezoelectric voltage and charge constants were reduced and mechanical quality factor increased with increasing the $MnO_2$ content. However, electromechanical coupling coefficient slightly decreased with increasing the MnO$_2$ content without regard to the grain size.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.11A
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• pp.904-908
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• 2009

The PZT(lead, zirconium, titanium) based ceramics which, are reported to be ferroelectric materials have their important applications in the areas of surface acoustic waves (SAW), filters, infrared detectors, actuators, ferroelectric random acess memory, speakers, electronic switches etc. Moreover, these PZT materials possess the large electromechanical coupling factor, large spontaneous polarization, low dielectric loss and low internal stress etc. Hence, keeping in view the unique properties of PZT piezoelectric ceramics we also tried to synthesize indigenously the small sized PZT ceramic powder in the laboratory by using the modified sol-gel approach. In this paper, Propyl alcohol based sol-gel method was used for preparation of PZT piezoelectric ceramic. The powder obtained by this sol-gel process was calcined and sintering to reach a pyrochlore-free crystal phase. The characterization of synthesized material was carried out by the XRD analysis and the surface morphology was determined by high resolution scanning electron microscopy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.313-314
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• 2005

$PbTiO_3$ and PZT(52/48) powders, prepared by the sol-gel method, were mixed with an organic vehicle and the PT/PZT(52/40) heterolayered thick films were fabricated by the screen-printing method on Pt/$Al_2O_3$ substrates. The structural properties such as DTA, X-ray diffraction and microstructure, were examined as a amount of the PbO-$PbF_2$ flux. In the X-ray diffraction analysis, PZT(52/48) thick films showed a perovskite polycrystalline structure without a pyrochlore phase.

• Journal of Ceramic Processing Research
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.252-256
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• 2022

In this study, K(Ta0.65Nb0.35)O3/K(Ta0.50Nb0.50)O3 heterolayer films were fabricated by the chemical solution deposition and spin-coating method and their structural and electrical properties were measured. All specimens represented a pseudo-cubic structure with a lattice constant of approximately 0.3999-0.4003 nm along with an observable K-deficient Ta2O5∙n(KTaO3) pyrochlore phase. Average thickness for a single coating was about 60~70 nm and average grain size was approximately 105-110 nm. Curie temperature was about 7℃ and no dependence was observed on the number of coatings and sintering atmosphere. Remanent polarization of KTN heterolayer films decreased abruptly at about 50℃. The 6-coated KTN heterolayer film sintered in O2 atmosphere showed good ΔT of 1.93℃ at about 60℃ and ΔT/ΔE of 0.15×10-6 KmV-1.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.425-430
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• 2004

In this paper, in order to develop the low temperature sintering ceramics for multilayer piezoelectric transformer, PMN-PZT ceramics were manufactured with the variations of sintering times, and their microstructural, piezoelectric and dielectric properties were investigated. To manufacture multilayer piezoelectric transformer, the low temperature sintering composition is need, hence, $Li_2CO_3$ and $Bi_2O_3$ were used as sintering aids and the specimens were sintered during 30, 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 minutes, respectively. At the specimen sintered during 90 minute, mechanical quality factor(Qm), electromechanical coupling factor(kp) and dielectric constant were showed the optimum values of 2356, 0.504 and 1266, respectively. All the specimens showed tetragonality phase, and pyrochlore phase was not shown.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.32 no.10
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• pp.1178-1188
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• 1995

Bi4Ti3O12 (BIT) and its rare earth (Y, Nd, Sm, Gd)-substituted derivatives were synthesized using a sol-gel method to investigate their microstructures, cystal structures and electrical properties depending on the subsituted elemetns. Nd- or Sm-substitution into BIT appeared to be favorable, while Y- or Gd-substitution occurred with a pyrochlore phase. This suggests that a smaller trivalent rare earth ion may not be favorable in the structure of BIT. The rare earth derivatives showed that their particle sizes and shapes were considerably different depending on the kinds of substituted elements. Y-substitution resulted in developing a relatively even particle size and a dense microstructure. In structure, they may be similar to the pseudo-orthorhombic BIT but close to a paraelectric tetragonal phase. Their a (or b) axes were shortened, compared to the one of BIT. Such a distortion may result a decrease in the tilting of TiO6. BIT and the derivatives showed that their dielectric constants and losses were 40~120 and less than 0.03, respectively in the frequency range of 1~10 MHz. The dielectric loss of Y-substituted derivative was the lowest one and changed a little to frequency. Curie points were observed in all the derivatives like BIT to suggest that they would be ferroelectric. The temperature stability of the delectric properties of the derivatives below the Curie points were relatively better than the one of BIT.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.370-375
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• 2001

PZT thin films (3500${\AA}$) ahve been prepared onto Pt/Ti/corning glass (1737) substrates with a RF magnetron sputtering system using Pb$\sub$1.50/(Zr$\sub$0.52/,Ti$\sub$0.48)O$_3$ ceramic target. We used two-step annealing techniques, PZT thin films were grown at a 300$^{\circ}C$ substrate temperature and then subjected to an RTA treatment. In case of 500$^{\circ}C$ RTA temperature show pyrochlore phase. The formation of Perovskite phase started above 600$^{\circ}C$ and PZT thin films generated (101) preferred orientation. As the RTA time and temperature increased, crystallization of PZT films were enhanced. The PZT capacitors fabricated at 650$^{\circ}C$ for 10 minutes RTA treatment showed remanent polarization 30 ${\mu}$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$, saturation polarization 42${\mu}$C/$\textrm{cm}^2$, coercive field 110kV/cm, leakage current density 2.83x10$\^$-7/A/$\textrm{cm}^2$, remanent polarization were decreased by 30% after 10$\^$9/ cycles.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.224-227
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• 2015

Ferroelectric $Pb_2(Sc,Nb)O_6$ were prepared under two different sintering conditions using the oxide mixing method and the electrical properties were measured. The sintering conditions were $1350^{\circ}C$ for 25 minutes and $1400^{\circ}C$ for 20 minutes. EDX spectroscopy and XRD were used to determine the crystalline characteristic of the $Pb_2(Sc,Nb)O_6$ compositions Pyrochlore phase showed about 2% in all $Pb_2(Sc,Nb)O_6$ specimens. It expands the growth of crystals in samples sintered at $1400^{\circ}C$ than $1350^{\circ}C$, but all samples were the optimal crystallization. The temperature and frequency dependence of the complex dielectric constant and admittance were measured to analyze the electrical properties. The high dielectric constant of the specimens reflects the good stoichiometry and crystallization. The maximum value of the dielectric constant in the two specimens treated with sintering at $1350^{\circ}C$ and $1400^{\circ}C$ were more than 27,000, and the dielectric loss at room temperature is smaller than 0.05. The maximum dielectric constant decreased with increasing frequency, the transition temperature also increased in $Pb_2(Sc,Nb)O_6$ compositions. The admittance and susceptance values reach a peak at all temperatures, and the magnitude of the peak increases with increasing measuring temperature. Strong frequency dependent of maximum admittance, susceptance, dielectric constant and dielectric loss were observed.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.99-103
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• 2005

Lead scandium tantalate powders were prepared by a molten salt synthesis method using NaCl-KCl as a flux. Variations in phase formation and particle morphology were investigated for the temperature range from $700^{\circ}C\;to\;800^{\circ}C$. $Pb(Sc_{1/2}Ta_{1/2})O_3$, with pure perovskite phase was formed at $750^{\circ}C$ fur 2 hrs and the prepared powder had the cubic-like morphology and the average particle size below $0.5{\mu}m$. The results were discussed with respect to DTA, X-ray diffraction, and microstructural characterization data.