Journal of Advanced Dielectrics, Volume. 13, Issue 2, 2350005(2023)
High quality crystal growth and characterization of ferroelectric TiO3 single crystal
Lei Liu1... Fangyi Yin1, Guiyuan Zhao1, Limei Zheng1,2,aff***, Xiuwei Fu1,aff******, Zhitai Jia1,3 and Xutang Tao1
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1State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, P. R. China2School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, P. R. China3Shandong Research Institute of Industrial Technology, Jinan, Shandong 250100, P. R. Chinashow less
TiO3 (BCT) single crystal has been widely studied as a promising lead-free ferroelectric material. In this work, high-quality BCT crystal was successfully grown by the Czochralski (CZ) method. The as-grown crystal is crack-free and shows black coloration. It possesses a high dielectric stability over a wide temperature range, while the dielectric loss is rather small below 90C. Furthermore, it possesses excellent ferroelectric properties with residual polarization strength () and coercive field () of 17.93 C/cm2 and 8.47 kV/cm, respectively. Besides, BCT crystal shows large electromechanical coupling factors, with , , and of 0.535, 0.254, 0.714 and 0.721, respectively. The piezoelectric coefficients , and are measured to be − 36.5, 130 and 246 pC/N, respectively.