The lead-free sodium bismuth titanate (BNT) system has been extensively investigated in
the past decade due to its multi-functional electro-active properties. Here, we present a …

Crystallographic texturing of polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics offers a means of
achieving significant enhancements in the piezoelectric response. Templated grain growth …

Due to the nature of domains, ferroics, including ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, and ferroelastic
materials, exhibit hysteresis phenomena with respect to external driving fields (magnetic …

In response to the current environmental regulations against the use of lead in daily
electronic devices, a number of investigations have been performed worldwide in search for …

Ceramics are usually composed of randomly oriented grains and intergranular phases, so
their properties are the statistical average along each direction and show isotropy …

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the perovskite phase Na0. 5Bi0. 5TiO3
(NBT) as a promising lead-free piezoelectric material. Here we report low levels of Na …

Abstract (Bi 1/2 Na 1/2) TiO 3 (BNT) based lead-free incipient piezoceramics are promising
candidates for actuator applications due to their giant electromechanical strains originating …

We predict the occurrence of large ferroelectric polarization and piezoelectricity in the
hypothetical perovskite-structure oxides, bismuth aluminate (BiAlO3) and bismuth gallate …

Texture-engineered ceramics enable access to a vast array of novel texture-property
relations leading to property values ranging between those of single crystals and isotropic …

In this review, the evolution of textured lead-free piezoceramics has been explored, primarily
focusing on the technique of templated grain growth (TGG) and reactive-templated grain …