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Journal of Alloys and Compounds 796 (2019) 221e228

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The interplay of phases, structural disorder and dielectric behavior in

Al doped BiFeO 3-BaTiO3 ceramics
Jiangguli Peng a, b, c, Jiangtao Zeng a, Liaoying Zheng a, Guorong Li a, *, Nader Yaacoub c,
Mohamed Tabellout c, Alain Gibaud c, Abdelhadi Kassiba c, **
a
Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Material and Device, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
b
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China
c
Institut des Mol
ecules et Mat
eriaux du Mans(IMMM), CNRS UMR 6283, Faculte des Sciences, Universite du Maine, Avenue O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans,
Cedex 09, France

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: Al doped BiFeO3-BaTiO3 (BFA-BT) systems with a defined composition were prepared by a conventional
Received 17 February 2019 solid-state method. From SEM and XRD analyses, the high-density of the ceramics and the high lattice
Received in revised form parameters ratio cT /aT traducing large distortions of the rhombohedral phase play a dominant role in the
29 April 2019
enhanced piezoelectric properties. The high polarization and large strain were achieved in the
Accepted 2 May 2019
Available online 6 May 2019
BF 0.970A 0.030-BT system. 57Fe M€ossbauer spectra revealed the large disorder of Fe 3þ at B sites preferen-
tially occupied by more Al3þ doping ions, forming the diffusive phase transition for diele ctric behaviors
in ceramics. Grain and grain-boundary effects were pointed out from the dielectric modulus and its
Keywords:
BiFeO 3
related thermal evolution. AC capacitances indicated two relaxation processes marked by the grains and
Structural disorder interfaces involved in the polycrystalline ceramics for highly doped systems.
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Polarization
Dielectric behavior

1. Introduction stability. Alternative materials were then considered such as BiFeO 3

Piezoelectric materials have contributed widely to improve the
efficiency and sensitivity of sensors, actuators and transducers
[1e3]. In this frame, recent developments were dedicated to lead-
free materials for their role in the environment preservation
[4e6]. As promising candidates, K 0.5Na0.5NbO3 (KNN)-, Bi0.5 Na0.5-
TiO3 (BNT)- and BaTiO3 (BT)-based ceramics are worthy of interest
due to excellent piezoelectric responses [7,8]. The low Curie tem-
perature of BT- and KNN- based materials or the low depolarization
temperature for BNT- and BT-based lead free systems, constitute a
major drawback for the thermal stability of their electrical prop-
erties [9]. It was reported that the Curie temperature (T c ) of Ba1-
x La2x/3TiO 3 is only up to 43 C [10] and T c of ternary 0.96

based ceramics. Particularly, compositions with Bi 1-xCaxFeO3,
CaTiO 3 or BaTiO 3 modified BiFeO 3 showed both ferroelectric and
magnetoelectric properties [13e15]. Therefore, bismuth ferrite
(BiFeO 3) based ceramics with excellent multiferroic features and
high ferroelectric Curie temperatures (1103 K) are highly relevant
for practical applications.
However, pure or doped BiFeO3 are difficult to obtain as a single-
phase structure with high piezoelectric responses and saturated P-E
loops [16,17]. The alternative challenge is then focused on the bi-
nary or ternary BiFeO 3 based systems. As examples, relevant
domain-like structures were built based on BiFeO 3 and ABO 3-type
perovskites such as BaTiO 3, CaTiO3, SrTiO3 and Bi0.5Na0.5TiO 3
[14,18,19]. Also, 0.70BiFeO 3 -0.30BaTiO3 was investigated as the

[(K 0.48Na0.52) 0.95Li0.05Nb 1-xSbx O3]-0.04[BaZrO3] is u p to 175  C [11].
The depolarization temperature of 160  C for KBT-BT-NBT is not
suitable for piezoelectric materials [12] with high temperature
* Corresponding author.
** Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: pjguli@student.sic.ac.cn (J. Peng), grli@sunm.shcnc.ac.cn
(G. Li), Abdelhadi.Kassiba@univ-lemans.fr (A. Kassiba).
optimal composition offering the highest remnant polarization
along with high piezoelectric d 33 coefficient [20,21]. Moreover, it
was reported that Sc, Ga, Al, La, In, Co, Gd, Nd and Ni doping at B
sites can promote the piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties of
BiFeO 3 -BaTiO3 system as ABO3 perovskite materials [22e25]. Thus,
the design of suitable doped microstructure contributes to fine-
tune the ferroelectric and piezoelectric peculiarities of BiFeO 3
based systems.

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