Published November 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Ferroelastic contribution to the piezoelectric response in lead zirconate titanate by in situ stroboscopic neutron diffraction

  • 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 (Australia)
  • 2. School of Physics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800 (Australia)
  • 3. Bragg Institute, ANSTO, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234 (Australia)

Description

Ferroelastic domain switching during dynamic actuation is measured in situ for a piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramic utilizing a new capability developed on The Australian Strain Scanner (TASS) at ANSTO. Diffraction patterns are obtained as a function of time during a 1 Hz cycle. The change in the 0 0 2 and 2 0 0 diffraction intensities indicates there is ferroelastic domain switching at sub-coercive (weak) fields

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.05.115;
PII
S0921-4526(06)01009-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
385-386
Journal Page Range
p. 100-102
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
8. international conference on neutron scattering
Dates
27 Nov - 2 Dec 2005
Place
Sydney (Australia)

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.