The similar electronic structure of Bi 3+ and Pb 2+ has motivated researchers to explore
bismuth-based perovskite compounds, which in the past decade has been further fuelled by …

The relationship between matter properties and their atomic-scale structures is a
challenging investigation. For relaxor ferroelectrics, correlating the relaxor mechanisms on …

Achieving a high strain under a low electric field is critical for actuator applications, and so is
something which has always been pursued. Here, an enhanced strain was achieved by …

Quenching alkaline bismuth titanates from sintering temperatures results in increased lattice
distortion and consequently higher depolarization temperature. This work investigates the …

Do** is a widely used method to tune the physical properties of ferroelectric perovskites.
Since do** can induce effective charges, it is important to understand how charges affect …

Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3-based materials have gained considerable attention for their potential to
exhibit giant strain, very-high ionic conductivity comparable to yttria stabilized zirconia or …

In the present work, Bi non-stoichiometry is used to control oxygen vacancy concentration
and the ferroelectric to relaxor phase transition temperature (T FR) to optimize photostriction …

Hyper-Raman scattering is used to study the temperature dependence of the longitudinal
optic (LO) modes of three prototypical ferroelectric relaxors in a broad temperature range …

In this work, the lead-free composition (1-x) Bi 0.5 Na 0.5 TiO 3–xBaTiO 3 (BNT–BT) with x=
0.12 was investigated using in situ Synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction. With the applied …

The effects of sintering time on the ferroelectric to relaxor crossover were systematically
investigated for Sr (Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5) O 3-modified Bi 0.5 (Na 0.8 K 0.2) TiO 3 ceramics, prepared …