Anomalous change in leakage and displacement currents after electrical poling on lead-free ferroelectric ceramics
Abstract
We report the polarization, displacement current, and leakage current behavior of a trivalent nonpolar cation (Al3+) substituted lead free ferroelectric (Na0.46Bi0.46-xAlxBa0.08)TiO3 (NBAT-BT) (x = 0, 0.05, 0.07 and 0.10) electroceramics with tetragonal phase and P4 mm space group symmetry. Almost, three orders of magnitude decrease in leakage current were observed under electrical poling, which significantly improves microstructure, polarization, and displacement current. Effective poling neutralizes the domain pinning, traps charges at grain boundaries and fills oxygen vacancies with free charge carriers in matrix, thus saturated macroscopic polarization in contrast to that in unpoled samples. E-poling changes "bananas" type polarization loops to real ferroelectric loops.
Citation
Borkar , H , Tomar , M , Gupta , V , Scott , J F & Kumar , A 2015 , ' Anomalous change in leakage and displacement currents after electrical poling on lead-free ferroelectric ceramics ' Applied Physics Letters , vol 107 , no. 12 . DOI: 10.1063/1.4931696
Publication
Applied Physics Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0003-6951Type
Journal article
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© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4931696
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A.K. acknowledges the CSIR-MIST (PSC-0111) project for their financial assistance. Hitesh Borkar would like to acknowledge the UGC (SRF) to provide fellowship to carry out Ph.D. program.Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.