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Fatigue of piezoelectric properties in Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 films

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev
1996
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Piezoelectric properties of Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 thin films are investigated as a function of the number of bipolar (switching) and unipolar (nonswitching) voltage pulses. The longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient d(33) decreases with bipolar fatigue reflecting the decrease of switchable polarization. Simultaneously, a strong vertical shift of piezoelectric hysteresis loops is observed, which is considered as the buildup of fixed internal polarization due to the pinning of ferroelectric domains in a preferred orientation. Piezoelectric fatigue induced by unipolar (nonswitching) pulses is considerably smaller than the fatigue under bipolar conditions and can be described by the internal bias field which shifts piezoelectric hysteresis loops along the field axis. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.

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Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev
1996
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/bf431513-85e9-4943-8fbc-8df4080d57a0

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Ferroelectricity is a characteristic of certain materials that have a spontaneous electric polarization that can be reversed by the application of an external electric field. All ferroelectrics are also piezoelectric and pyroelectric, with the additional property that their natural electrical polarization is reversible. The term is used in analogy to ferromagnetism, in which a material exhibits a permanent magnetic moment. Ferromagnetism was already known when ferroelectricity was discovered in 1920 in Rochelle salt by Joseph Valasek.

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