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Grain Growth and Twin Formation in 0.74 PMN-0.26 PT

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Author(s)

Jay S. Wallace, J M. Huh, J Blendell, C A. Handwerker

Abstract

The mechanisms controlling normal and exaggerated grain growth in lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) ceramics have been investigated by varying the PbO-based liquid phase volume fraction from 0.03 to 0.6 and sintering temperature form 900 C to 1100 C. There was a transition in grain growth rate and grain shape with increasing liquid fraction; samples with liquid volume fractions <0.2 showed relatively small equiaxed grains due to impingement and samples with higher liquid fractions showed significantly larger, facetted, cube-shaped grains, whose size was independent of liquid fraction, indicating a surface nucleation rate controlling growth mechanism. Exaggerated grains were found in the high liquid fractions samples. Orientation imaging microscopy showed that all of the exaggerated grains contained 60 <111> twins whereas none of the normal matrix grains contained twins. The reentrant angles in the twinned grains have them a growth advantage over untwined grains due to the relative ease of nucleating ledges on a facetted surface.
Citation
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume
85
Issue
No. 6
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

exaggerated grain growth, grain growth, lead magnesium niobate, PMN, re-entrant edge growth, twin plane
Ceramics and Biomaterials

Citation

Wallace, J. , Huh, J. , Blendell, J. and Handwerker, C. (2002), Grain Growth and Twin Formation in 0.74 PMN-0.26 PT, Journal of the American Ceramic Society (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created May 31, 2002, Updated October 12, 2021
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