CAJ | 학술논문

Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9Zr0.1O3 (BCTZ) lead-free piezoelectric ceramics co-doped with CeO2 (x=0.1 wt.%, 0.2 wt.%, 0.3 wt.%, 0.4 wt.%, 0.5 wt.%) and Li2CO3 (0.6 wt.%) were prepared by conventional solid-state reaction method. Influence of CeO2 doping amount on the piezoelectric properties, dielectric properties, phase composition and microstructure of prepared BCTZ lead-free piezoelectric ceramics doped with Li2CO3 were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and other ana-lytical methods. The results showed that the sintered temperature of BCTZ lead-free piezoelectric ceramics doped with CeO2 de-creased greatly when Li2CO3 doping amount was 0.6 wt.%;a pure perovskite structure of BCTZ lead-free piezoelectric ceramics co-doped with Li2CO3 and CeO2 and sintered at 1050 °C could also be obtained. The piezoelectric constant (d33), the relative permit-tivity (εr) and the planar electromechanical coupling factor (kp) of BCTZ ceramics doped with Li2CO3 increased firstly and then de-creased, the dielectric loss (tanδ) decreased firstly and then increased and decreased at last when CeO2 doping amount increased. The influence of CeO2 doping on the properties of BCTZ lead-free piezoelectric ceramics doped with Li2CO3 were caused by“soft effect”and “hard effect”piezoelectric additive and causing lattice distortion. When CeO2 doping amount (x) was 0.2 wt.%, the BCTZ ce-ramics doped with Li2CO3 (0.6 wt.%) and sintered at 1050 °C possessed the best piezoelectric property and dielectric property with d33 of 436 pC/N, kp of 48.3%,εr of 3650, tanδof 1.5%.