Domain switching criteria for piezoelectric materials

Chin-Teh Sun; Ajit Achuthan

doi:10.1117/12.432762

11 July 2001 Domain switching criteria for piezoelectric materials

Chin-Teh Sun, Ajit Achuthan

Proceedings Volume 4333, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Active Materials: Behavior and Mechanics; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432762
Event: SPIE's 8th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2001, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Experimental results reported by many researchers showed that the coercive electric field for ferroelectric switching depends on mechanical stresses present in the material. Similarly, the coercive stress for ferroelastic switching depends on the electric field. To model these dependences, several domain switching criteria based on different considerations have been proposed in earlier studies. In this paper, these domain switching criteria are briefly reviewed and the predictions based on these domain switching criteria are compared with the available experimental data for 180 degree(s) domain switching in PZT. It is found that the predictions do not match the experimental results. Motivated by this observation, a new domain switching criterion based on internal energy density is proposed. This new criterion is found to yield very good predictions compared with the existing experimental results for 180 degree(s) domain switching in PZT. To verify the new domain switching criterion for 90 degree(s) switching, experiments were conducted using PZT-5H. The new experimental result indicates that the new domain switching criterion gives a much better prediction than other existing criteria.

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Chin-Teh Sun and Ajit Achuthan "Domain switching criteria for piezoelectric materials", Proc. SPIE 4333, Smart Structures and Materials 2001: Active Materials: Behavior and Mechanics, (11 July 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432762

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