Published March 15, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Preparation of PZT powders and ceramics via a hybrid method of sol-gel and ultrasonic atomization

  • 1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfinemicrostructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200050 (China) and College of Materials Science and Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000 (China)
  • 2. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000 (China)
  • 3. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfinemicrostructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200050 (China)

Description

Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) (52/48) powders were synthesized by a hybrid method of sol-gel and ultrasonic atomization. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results showed that perovskite phase of PZT is formed at 400 deg. C. This temperature is much lower than the calcination temperatures (500-900 deg. C) required by other processes. Phase-pure PZT powders were obtained at 700 deg. C. The PZT ceramics sintered at 1150 deg. C for 4 h exhibited a relative density of 98.5%, a piezoelectric coefficient of 221 pC/N, a remnant polarization of 24.1 μC/cm2, and a coercive field of 10.1 kV/cm. Moreover, we used ZrO2 as the starting material in this study, which is much cheaper than that used in sol-gel process, thus leading to a cost-effective approach possible for industrial fabrications of PZT materials. This method is also believed to be applicable to other Zr-containing materials

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.mseb.2004.10.019;
PII
S0921-5107(04)00551-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Materials Science and Engineering. B, Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology
Journal Volume
117
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 113-118
ISSN
0921-5107
CODEN
MSBTEK

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Copyright (c) 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.