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Effect of Zr/Ti ratio on electrically induced light scattering property of Pb0.92La0.08 (ZryTi1−y)0.98 O3 ceramics

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Lanthanum-modified lead zirconate titanate ceramics Pb0.92La0.08(ZryTi1−y)0.98O3 (y = 64.5 ~ 68.0 mol%) were prepared by a hot-press sintering process in this study. Systematic analysis of the microstructure, dielectric, ferroelectric, and electrically induced light scattering properties were carried out. All samples were crystallized into a single perovskite phase with a dense microstructure. The maximum dielectric constants εrmax decreased with the Zr/Ti ratio increasing (1 kHz), and the P-E hysteresis loops showed that the remnant polarization (Pr) and the coercive electric field (Ec) were significantly reduced accompanied with the gradually enhanced antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition while the Zr/Ti ratio increasing (measured at room temperature). Noticeably, the threshold electric field of electrically induced light scattering performance (examined at λ = 633nm) significantly decreased as the Zr/Ti ratio decreasing. The PLZT (8/65.5/34.5) ceramics exhibited the optimum electrically induced light scattering performance under a very low threshold electric field.

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The authors thank the Innovation Fund (E08ZC7170G) of Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences for supporting the research.

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    Liang Ling, Xia Zeng, Pingsun Qiu & Xiyun He

  2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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Ling, L., Zeng, X., Qiu, P. et al. Effect of Zr/Ti ratio on electrically induced light scattering property of Pb0.92La0.08 (ZryTi1−y)0.98 O3 ceramics. J Electroceram 47, 1–7 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10832-021-00253-8

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