Potassium–sodium niobate lead-free piezoelectric materials: past, present, and future of phase boundaries

J Wu, D **ao, J Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
High-performance piezoceramics are some of the most important and widely used materials,
and as such research into this topic is at the forefront of high-technology advanced …

(K, Na)NbO3‐Based Lead‐Free Piezoceramics: Fundamental Aspects, Processing Technologies, and Remaining Challenges

JF Li, K Wang, FY Zhu, LQ Cheng… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Environment‐friendly lead‐free piezoelectric ceramics have been studied extensively in the
past decade with great progress particularly in systems based on a niobate perovskite …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of aging and fatigue in ferroelectrics

YA Genenko, J Glaum, MJ Hoffmann, K Albe - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of aging and fatigue phenomena in bulk polycrystalline
ferroelectrics is presented. Three material classes are covered, namely the most widely used …

Technology transfer of lead-free (K, Na) NbO3-based piezoelectric ceramics

HC Thong, C Zhao, Z Zhou, CF Wu, YX Liu, ZZ Du… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric materials are an important functional material in the modern world because
they are capable of converting electrical energy into mechanical energy and vice versa …

A critical review: the impact of electrical poling on the longitudinal piezoelectric strain coefficient

SS Dani, A Tripathy, NR Alluri… - Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Piezoelectric materials play an essential role in the advancement of micro-and
nanoelectronics equipment. The piezoelectric properties of the materials rely upon the …

(K, Na)NbO3-based lead-free piezoceramics: Phase transition, sintering and property enhancement

K Wang, JF Li - Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2012 - Springer
Most widely used piezoelectric ceramics are based on Pb (Zr, Ti) O 3 (PZT) composition
which has adverse environmental and health effects due to its high lead content …

Large size lead-free (Na, K)(Nb, Ta) O 3 piezoelectric single crystal: growth and full tensor properties

L Zheng, X Huo, R Wang, J Wang, W Jiang, W Cao - CrystEngComm, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Environmental friendly piezoelectric single crystal, Ta-modified (K, Na) NbO3 with the size of
12× 11× 11 mm3, has been successfully grown using the top seeded solution growth …

Poling engineering of (K, Na) NbO 3-based lead-free piezoceramics with orthorhombic–tetragonal coexisting phases

Q Li, MH Zhang, ZX Zhu, K Wang, JS Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
(K, Na) NbO3 (KNN) is considered as one of the most promising candidates for lead-free
piezoelectric ceramics, due to its large piezoelectric response as well as high Curie …

Low-temperature dielectric relaxation associated with NbO6 octahedron distortion in antimony modified potassium sodium niobate ceramics

N Zhang, X Lv, X Zhang, J Lyu, SW Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the antimony (Sb) has been widely used to modify potassium sodium niobate
(KNN) ceramics for tailoring the phase structure and performance, the role of Sb still remains …

Polymorphic structure evolution and large piezoelectric response of lead-free (Ba, Ca)(Zr, Ti) O3 ceramics

Y Tian, X Chao, L **, L Wei, P Liang, Z Yang - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The polymorphic structure evolution of (Ba, Ca)(Zr, Ti) O 3 piezoelectric ceramics was
investigated by analysis of the in situ X-ray diffraction and dielectric spectra. The results …