화학공학소재연구정보센터
Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.55, No.19, 9513-9516, 2016
Giant Polarization and High Temperature Monoclinic Phase in a Lead-Free Perovskite of Bi(Zn0.5Ti0.5)O-3-BiFeO3
Lead-free piezoelectrics have attracted increasing attention because of the awareness of lead toxicity to the environment. Here, a new bismuth-based lead-free perovskite, (1 - x)Bi(Zn0.5Ti0.5)O-3-xBiFeO(3), has been synthesized via a high-pressure and high-temperature method. It exhibits interesting properties of giant polarization, morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), and monoclinic phase. In particular, large tetragonality (c/a = 1.228) and giant spontaneous polarization of 110 mu C/cm(2) has been obtained in 0.6 Bi(Zn0.5Ti0.5)O-3-0.4BiFeO(3), which is much higher than most available lead-free materials conventional Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3. MPB is clearly identified to be constituted of tetragonal and monoclinic phases at x = 0.5. Notably, a single monoclinic phase has been observed at x = 0.6, which exhibits an intriguing high-temperature property. The present results are helpful to explore new lead-free MPB systems in bismuth-based compounds.