Citation: Haoran Yu, Liang Cao, Jiajia Wang, Jian Guo, Ji Zhang, Shan-Tao Zhang. "Soft" to "hard" transition and balanced performance in Pb(Ni_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-Pb(Mn_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbZrO₃-PbTiO₃: Sm[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2026, 37(10): 111560. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2025.111560 shu

"Soft" to "hard" transition and balanced performance in Pb(Ni_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-Pb(Mn_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbZrO₃-PbTiO₃: Sm

Haoran Yu ^a ,
Liang Cao ^a ,
Jiajia Wang ^b ,
Jian Guo ^a ,
Ji Zhang ^b ,
Shan-Tao Zhang ^{a, *,}

a.
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
b.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

stzhang@nju.edu.cn

Received Date: 22 April 2025
Revised Date: 30 June 2025
Accepted Date: 8 July 2025
Available Online: 8 July 2025

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Piezoelectric materials have wide commercial applications involving our everyday lives. The common categorized "soft" and "hard" piezoelectric materials have distinct even contradictory performance parameters typically exemplified by piezoelectric coefficient d₃₃ and mechanical quality factor Q_m. However, for some special devices operated in resonant mode, simultaneously high or at least balanced performance parameters are needed. Here, we show the transition from "soft" to "hard" performance in 2 mol% Sm doped (0.36-x)Pb(Ni_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-xPb(Mn_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃–0.28PbZrO₃–0.36PbTiO₃ quaternary solid solution piezoceramics, for which the d₃₃ and planar electromechanical coupling factor k_p decrease, while Q_m and Curie temperature T_c increase monotonously with increasing x value. As the results, balanced performance with moderate d₃₃ = 446 pC/N, k_p = 0.49, Q_m = 425, and T_c = 170 ℃ are achieved around x = 0.03. This work not only shows the feasibility for combining "soft" and "hard" performance by forming appropriate solid solutions, but also provides a suitable material basis for further simultaneously optimizing piezoelectric parameters.
- Pb(Ni_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-Pb(Mn_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbZrO₃-PbTiO₃,
- Ceramics,
- Piezoelectric property,
- "Soft" and "hard" performance,
- Domain structure
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