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Improved pyroelectric properties and domain structures via poling and depoling effects in Mn-doped PIN–PMN–PT single crystals

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The poling and depoling effects were investigated on the pyroelectric performance and the domain structures of Mn-doped PIN–PMN–PT (the abbreviation of the 0.15Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)–0.55Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.30PbTiO3 crystals doped with 1% manganese, nominal composition) single crystals to optimize the poling process. With the poling field up to 3Ec, the crystals can reach the best pyroelectric properties and the characteristic parameters are optimized as p = 9.39 × 10–4 Cm−2 K−1 and Fd = 25.7 × 10–5 Pa−1/2. The single domain state cannot be achieved with further increasing the electric field due to the pinned effect induced by the \(({\text{Mn}}^{{2 + }} )_{Ti}^{{{\prime \prime }}} - {\text{V}}_{O}^{{{ \cdot \cdot }}}\) dipoles and the internal stress field. Due to the enhanced thermal stability, the crystals increase the working temperature compared to the undoped PMN-PT crystals, reaching 100 °C, that is suitable for applications as the infrared devices. When the temperature is above 100 °C, the pyroelectric performance will deteriorate seriously due to the successive phase transitions from the rhombohedral ferroelectric phase to the tetragonal ferroelectric phase at TR–T, and to the cubic paraelectric phase at TC/Tm.

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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2016YFC0301803 and 2016YFC0201102), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61634007, 11827808 and 51831010), and the key program of Fujian institute of Innovation (No. FJCXY18040205).

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    Fei Hu

  2. Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Material and Device, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China

    Fei Hu, Rongfeng Zhu, Li Lu, Ziyun Chen, Rui Chen, Wenning Di, Xi’an Wang & Haosu Luo

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Hu, F., Zhu, R., Lu, L. et al. Improved pyroelectric properties and domain structures via poling and depoling effects in Mn-doped PIN–PMN–PT single crystals. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 12317–12324 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03777-x

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