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Measurement of thermal depolarization effects in piezoelectric coefficients of soft PZT ceramics via the frequency and direct methods

FIALKA, J. BENEŠ, P. MICHLOVSKÁ, L. KLUSÁČEK, S. PIKULA, S. DOHNAL, P. HAVRÁNEK, Z.

Original Title

Measurement of thermal depolarization effects in piezoelectric coefficients of soft PZT ceramics via the frequency and direct methods

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Depolarization at high temperatures around the Curie point constitutes an important yet difficultly measurable material property of piezoelectric (PZT) ceramics. The common vibrometric technique (d33 meters) is not suitable for the measurement of temperature dependences, and therefore we used the frequency method to perform the desired procedures. The indicator selected to show the depolarization state in the piezoelectric ceramics consisted in the piezoelectric charge coefficient, whose value can be effectively measured via the above-mentioned frequency technique. The accuracy of the method was verified via comparing a d33 meter constructed by the authors (as described in this paper) and also by means of differently sized cylinders of ceramics NCE51, which are designed for longitudinal length modes. Based on the obtained results, we established a measurement methodology to exactly determine the value of the Curie point that corresponded to the phase transition to a cubic crystallographic structure. The experiment also confirmed the applicability of progressively controlled depolarization of PZT ceramics by high temperature in the range of between 350 and 370 °C, and it defined the temperature limits at which there occur irreversible changes of the piezoelectric properties of PZT ceramics. In the measured NCE51 material, the limit for irreversible changes was equal to 95% of the Curie temperature (368 °C).

Keywords

PZT ceramics; Piezoelectric charge coefficient; Curie temperature; Frequency method; Vibrometric method

Authors

FIALKA, J.; BENEŠ, P.; MICHLOVSKÁ, L.; KLUSÁČEK, S.; PIKULA, S.; DOHNAL, P.; HAVRÁNEK, Z.

Released

1. 9. 2016

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd.

Location

Elsevier Limited, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom

ISBN

0955-2219

Periodical

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Year of study

36

Number

11

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

2727

Pages to

2738

Pages count

12

URL

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955221916301625

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/209273

BibTex

@article{BUT124661,
  author="Jiří {Fialka} and Petr {Beneš} and Lenka {Michlovská} and Stanislav {Klusáček} and Stanislav {Pikula} and Přemysl {Dohnal} and Zdeněk {Havránek}",
  title="Measurement of thermal depolarization effects in piezoelectric coefficients of soft PZT ceramics via the frequency and direct methods",
  journal="Journal of the European Ceramic Society",
  year="2016",
  volume="36",
  number="11",
  pages="2727--2738",
  doi="10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2016.03.036",
  issn="0955-2219",
  url="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955221916301625"
}