Abstract
In this work,texturing is proposed to improve the piezoelectric response of PSN-PMN-PT ceramics.The PSN-PMN-PT textured ceramic with a Lotgering factor F001 higher than 99%was synthesized by the liquid-phase-assisted template grain growth(TGG)method.The addition of CuO/B2O3 sintering aids improves the BT templates induced grain orientation growth behavior significantly.In comparison with its random counterpart,the Cu/B-T textured ceramic exhibits a high Lotgering factor F001 of 99%and significantly enhanced dielectric and piezoelectric responses:εr~3100,tanδ~0.8%,d33~1030 pC N-1,d33·g33~34.2 × 10-12 m2 N-1,d33*~1490 pm V-1@5 kV cm-1,Smax~0.26%@20 kV cm-1 and Hs~8.5%.In the meantime,good temperature stability is observed in the Cu/B-T textured ceramic with a variation of d33*@20 kV cm-1 and annealed d33 lower than 9.68%and 18.1%over a wide temperature range of 25-140 ℃.This work shows that PSN-PMN-PT textured ceramic(Cu/B-T)has great potential for electrome-chanical device applications such as precision actuators,ultrasound transducers,and energy harvesters.