Nonlinearity and scaling behavior in donor-doped lead zirconate titanate piezoceramic

Volkmar Mueller; Q. M. Zhang

doi:10.1063/1.121101

Nonlinearity and scaling behavior in donor-doped lead zirconate titanate piezoceramic

Volkmar Mueller
, Q. M. Zhang

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Two different effective thresholds for the onset of nonlinearity in the dielectric and piezoelectric coefficients of donor-doped lead zirconate titanate (soft PZT) piezoceramics at electric ac fields E_c1≈100V/cm and E_c2≈1V/cm are found. Both are characterized by a scaling behavior x=x₀+A[E-E_c)/E_c]^F above the respective threshold, where x is the dielectric or piezoelectric coefficient. The values of the effective exponent are apparently independent of the particular ceramic system which suggests a universal behavior in soft PZT. We suggest that the nonlinearity is dominated by the dynamics of domain walls in a randomly pinned medium.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2692-2694
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	72
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.121101
State	Published - 1998

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