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Main Authors: Shi, Yubai, Shan, Yifan, Wu, Hongyu, Zhong, Zhicheng, He, Ri, Li, Run-Wei
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00330
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author Shi, Yubai
Shan, Yifan
Wu, Hongyu
Zhong, Zhicheng
He, Ri
Li, Run-Wei
author_facet Shi, Yubai
Shan, Yifan
Wu, Hongyu
Zhong, Zhicheng
He, Ri
Li, Run-Wei
contents Ferroelectric solid solutions usually exhibit giant dielectric response and high piezoelectricity in the vicinity of the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), where the structural phase transitions between the rhombohedral and the tetragonal phases as a result of the composition or strain variation. Here, we propose a compositional ordering-driven MPB in the specified compositional solid solutions. By preforming machine-learning potential based molecular dynamics simulations on lead zirconate titanate, we find a phase transition from the rhombohedral to tetragonal phase with the decrease of compositional ordering, leading to the MPB on temperature-ordering phase diagram. The compositional ordering-driven MPB can enhances the piezoelectricity with a magnitude comparable to that at the composition-driven MPB. Finally, we demonstrate that the mechanism of high piezoelectricity is polarization rotation driven by external field. This work provides an additional degree of freedom, compositional ordering, to design the high-performance piezoelectric materials.
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spellingShingle A compositional ordering-driven morphotropic phase boundary in ferroelectric solid solutions
Shi, Yubai
Shan, Yifan
Wu, Hongyu
Zhong, Zhicheng
He, Ri
Li, Run-Wei
Materials Science
Ferroelectric solid solutions usually exhibit giant dielectric response and high piezoelectricity in the vicinity of the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), where the structural phase transitions between the rhombohedral and the tetragonal phases as a result of the composition or strain variation. Here, we propose a compositional ordering-driven MPB in the specified compositional solid solutions. By preforming machine-learning potential based molecular dynamics simulations on lead zirconate titanate, we find a phase transition from the rhombohedral to tetragonal phase with the decrease of compositional ordering, leading to the MPB on temperature-ordering phase diagram. The compositional ordering-driven MPB can enhances the piezoelectricity with a magnitude comparable to that at the composition-driven MPB. Finally, we demonstrate that the mechanism of high piezoelectricity is polarization rotation driven by external field. This work provides an additional degree of freedom, compositional ordering, to design the high-performance piezoelectric materials.
title A compositional ordering-driven morphotropic phase boundary in ferroelectric solid solutions
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00330