• Applied Microscopy
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.164-173
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• 2012

The relaxor ferroelectric feature in lead-free perovskite oxides, where the dipoles are randomly oriented and they can be feasibly aligned parallel to the external bias, is attracting lots of attention in the field of piezoelectric materials science, since it is one of candidates to replace the toxic lead-based materials that are still being commercially used. However, the origin of relaxor characteristic and its related atomic structure are still ambiguous. In this study, $Na_{1/2}Bi_{1/2}TiO_3$, chosen as a model relaxor system, was found to exhibit a cationic-disordered atomic structure; and furthermore the nonpolar atomic structure and its related oxygen tilting were ascertained via annular bright field imaging skill. We also found that this cationic disordering gives rise to the local formation of atomic vacancies.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 1996년도 재료학회 추계학술발표회
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• pp.125-125
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• 1996

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.967-976
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• 1995

The possiblity of the existence of a spontaneous relaxor-normal ferroelectric transition was proposed and examined using 1~5 mol% PbZrO3-doped Pb(Ni1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PNN-PT) systems having tetragonal symmetry at rom temperature. On cooling, the system with 60mol% Pb(Ni1/3Nb2/3)O3 underwent a spontaneous transition from a relaxor to a normal ferroelectric state. A microscopic examination demonstrates that the relaxornormal ferroelectric transition corresponds to a micro-macro domain switching accompanied with thermoelastic martensitic transformation. The long-range macrodomains below the transition temperature were characterized by twinlike 90$^{\circ}$macrodomains with tetragonal symmetry. The relaxor-normal ferroelectric transition was further correlated with the rhombohedral-tetragonal first-order structural transition.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제38권12호
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• pp.1167-1173
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• 2001

텅스텐브론즈 구조를 가지는 Sr$_{x}Ba_{1-x}Nb_{2}O_{6}$(SBN) (0.3$\le$x$\ge$0.7) 세라믹스를 고상반응법으로 합성하고 Sr/Ba의 비에 따른 유전특성을 조사하였다. SBN 세라믹스는 Sr/Ba의 비가 증가함에 따라 상전이 온도는 낮아지고 상전이 온도에서의 최대 유전율은 증가하였다. 또한 SBN 세라믹스는 Sr 함량에 따른 relaxor 거동을 정량화하여 평가하였는데, Sr/Ba의 비가 증가할수록 유전율은 더욱 완만해지는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 이러한 실험 결과를 텅스텐브론지 구조를 가진 SBN 세라믹스의 결정구조 관점에서 해석하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• 제73권10호
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• pp.1561-1565
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• 2018

The dielectric properties of the uniaxial relaxor ferroelectric $Sr_xBa_{1-x}Nb_2O_6$ with x = 0.75 were investigated along the polar [001] direction as a function of temperature. The capacitance maximum showed the frequency dispersion commonly observed in relaxors. Additional weak dielectric anomalies were observed in the paraelectric phase; they were only seen during the heating process and disappeared upon subsequent cooling. These were attributed to the existence of large polar clusters strongly pinned at defects and/or to random fields and their metastable characters. Aligning the ferroelectric domains along the polar axis at room temperature removed the high-temperature dielectric anomalies. The dependences of the capacitance and the dielectric maximum temperature on the magnitude of the poling field were investigated.

• 한국결정학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.14-19
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• 2001

Effects of electric-field-induced lattice distortion on the polarization and strain were investigated in Pb(Mg/sub 1/3/Nb/sub 2/3)O₃ relaxor ferroelectric ceramics in the temperature range of -50℃∼90℃. The ratio of residual strain and polarization (S/sub r//P/sub r/ rarely depends on the temperature. However, the ratio of the electric field included strain and polarization (S/sub induced//P/sub induced/) increased as the temperature decreases below phase transition temperature. To explain these experimental results, a simple rigid ion model concentrating on only Bo/sub 6/ octahedron was suggested.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2008

PMN계 강유전체의 MPB 조성과 공존영역의 확산성을 이해하기 위해 유전 및 초전 특성을 분석하였다. PMN-PT계는 완만한 상전이를 보였으며, 이는 하나의 상유전과 2개의 강유전상이 공존함을 의미한다. 즉, 0.7PMN-0.3PT 조성 부근에서 능면정계와 정방정계의 공존 영역인 조성변태 상경계를 확인하였으며, 이들 조성은 연속적으로 능면정계$\rightarrow$정방정계$\rightarrow$입방정계로 상전이를 하였다. PT>0.325인 조성들은 측정된 진동수 범위에서 진동수 의존성을 보이지 않는 단일상의 강유전 특성을 보였으며, PMN>0.7인 조성들은 큰 진동수 의존성과 확산상전이의 전형적인 완화형 강유전 특성을 보였다. PMN-PT계의 조성변태 상경계 조성들은 우수한 유전 및 초전특성을 나타내었다.

• 세라미스트
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2020

In this study, the phase transition behaviors of lead-free (Na_1/2Bi_1/2TiO₃)_(1-x)-(BaTiO₃)_x (NBT-BT) are investigated by using Brillouin spectroscopy. The elastic properties, sound velocity and absorption coefficient of NBT-BT are characterized as a function of temperature along different crystallographic axes. The temperature dependences of the elastic constants of NBT-BT near the morphotropic phase boundary are determined for the first time. The unpoled NBT-BT single crystals exhibits the typical relaxor behaviors, presenting broad acoustic and dielectric anomalies. The application of electric field induced discontinuous changes in the elastic properties at ~110℃, which indicates field-induced phase transition occurred. The electric field also changes the dielectric constant from more relaxor-like to ferroelectric-like dielectric behavior.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.178-183
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• 2016

Ferroelectric relaxor ceramics with $BaTiO_3-NaNbO_3-Bi(Mg_{1/2}Ti_{1/2})O_3$ ternary compositions (BT-NN-BMT) have been prepared by sol-gel powder synthesis and consequent bulk ceramic processing. Through the modified chemical approach, fine and single-phase complex perovskite compositions were successfully obtained. Temperature and frequency dependent dielectric properties indicated typical relaxor characteristics of the BT-NN-BMT compositions. The ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition became diffusive when NN and BMT were added to form BT based solid solutions. BMT additions to the BT-NN solid solutions affected the high temperature dielectric properties, which might be attributable to the compositional inhomogeneity of the complex perovskite and resulting weak dielectric coupling of the Bi-containing polar nanoregions (PNRs). The temperature stability of the dielectric properties was good enough to satisfy the X9R specification. The quasi-linear P-E response and the temperature- stable dielectric properties imply the high potential of this ceramic compound for use in high temperature capacitors.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-4
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• 2015

(111)-oriented and random oriented $Pb_{0.8}Ba_{0.2}ZrO_3$ (PBZ) perovskite relaxor ferroelectric thin films were fabricated on Pt(111)/$TiO_x$/$SiO_2$/Si substrate by sol-gel method. Nano-scaled antiferroelectric and ferroelectric two-phase coexisted in both (111)-oriented and random oriented PBZ thin film. High dielectric tunability (${\eta}=75%$, E = 560 kV/cm) and figure-of-merit (FOM ~ 236) at room temperature was obtained in (111)-oriented thin film. Meanwhile, giant electrocaloric effect (ECE) (${\Delta}T=45.3K$ and ${\Delta}S=46.9JK^{-1}kg^{-1}$ at $598kVcm^{-1}$) at room temperature (290 K), rather than at its Curie temperature (408 K), was observed in random oriented $Pb_{0.8}Ba_{0.2}ZrO_3$ (PBZ) thin film, which makes it a promising material for the application to cooling systems near room temperature. The giant ECE as well as high dielectric tunability are attributed to the coexistence of AFE and FE phases and field-induced nano-scaled AFE to FE phase transition.