February 14, 2014
Author(s)
Daniel P. Phelan, Christopher Stock, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Songxue Chi, Juscelino Leao, Xifa Long, Yujuan Xie, Alexei A. Bokov, Zuo-Guang Ye, Panchapakesan Ganesh, Peter M. Gehring
Pb(Zr 1¿xTi x)O 3 (PZT) and Pb[(Mg 1/3Nb 2/3) 1¿xTi x]O 3 (PMN-xPT) are complex lead-oxide perovskites that display exceptional piezoelectric properties for pseudo-rhombohedral compositions near a tetragonal phase boundary. In PZT these compositions are