Ferroelectric fatigue and polarization hysteresis behavior of a [001]_c Pb(In_0.5Nb_0.5)O₃-Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbTiO₃ single crystal

Under the cyclic loading of a strong bipolar electric field, severe and rapid ferroelectric fatigue phenomena were observed in a [001]_c poled 0.24PIN-0.49PMN-0.27PT single crystal, where both of coercive field E_c and remnant polarization P_r decrease sharply with electric cycling in a similar trend. The ferroelectric hysteresis dynamic characteristics of the fatigued sample were investigated systemically to explore the influence of electric fatigue on hysteresis behavior. Different relationships for E_c, P_r, hysteresis area < A > , saturation polarization P_s and back-switching polarization P_bc, vs temperature T or frequency f were characterized in the temperature region from 293 to 433 K and frequency region from 0.1 to 100 Hz. Our results showed that hysteresis parameters < A > and E_c decreased approximately linearly with T in the rhombohedral or tetragonal phase. However, anomalous increases of the P_r and P_s with T were observed in the nearly whole temperature region, which is in conflict with the previous studies. It is suggested that depinning of domains due to increase of temperature is an origin of the rejuvenation of fatigue and the increasing of P_r and P_s with T. Moreover, different linear scaling relations between Log < A > and Log(f) were observed at different frequency ranges, which may contribute to heterogeneous nucleation or thermally activated creep motion of domains.