2016-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2016 Volume 7: Yang Intl. Symp. / Multiscale Material Mechanics
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Aifantis E, Wang H, Zhu T |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 190 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-48-5 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Grain-Size and Frequency Dependent Ferroelectric Characteristics of Nanocrystalline BaTiO3 Ceramics: A Phase-Field Study
Yu Su1;1BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Beijing, China;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 167
Topic: 1
Abstract:
In this study, we take the view that frequency dependence of ferroelectric hysteresis is a result of direct competition between the speed of polarization evolution and the speed of external loading. We used the Ginzburg-Landau kinetic equation to evaluate the evolution of polarization vectors. We also devised a polycrystal model with a core-shell grain configuration to reflect the effect of the grain-boundary (GB) affected zone. The phase-field results showed that the coercive field tended to increases with frequency, but remnant polarization increased only slightly while the dielectric constant and piezoelectric constant d33, tended to decrease. We also found that, while both hysteresis and butterfly loops exhibited the familiar sharp tails at low frequency, the tails disappeared and the loops became elliptic- and kidney-shaped, respectively, at high frequency. The calculated low-frequency phenomena are widely supported by experiments, but the high-frequency ones are not commonly found in literature. We substantiated both types of findings with details of the underlying domain dynamics. They clearly showed a complete 180o polarization reversal at low frequency, but stopped mostly at 90o at high frequency. We also examined the influence of the kinetic coefficient and the loading amplitude and found that, as either increase, the elliptic and kidney shape of the loops would occur at a higher frequency. The calculated grain-size effects indicated that the remnant polarization, dielectric constant, and d33 all decreased with decreasing grain size. This is again widely supported by experiments. But we also found that the grain-size effect of coercive field is more complicated. It may increase or decrease, and it is the magnitude of spontaneous polarization of the GB affected zone that determines its outcome.