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The development of BiFeO3-based ceramics

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The multiferroic properties of BiFeO3-based ceramics were improved through optimizing their sintering method and doping with certain rare earth elements in pure BiFeO3. Some methods, especially liquid-phase sintering method has largely decreased the densities of oxygen vacancies and Fe2+ in BiFeO3-based ceramics, and thus their resistivity became high enough to measure the saturated polarization and the large piezoelectric d 33 coefficient under the high electric field of >150 kV/cm. Besides, multiferroic properties were improved through the rare earth elements’ doping in pure BiFeO3. Magnetization commonly increases with the proportional increase of Nd, La, Sm and Dy contents up to ~30 %, while ferroelectric phase can transform to paraelectric phase at a certain proportion. An improved magnetoelectric coupling was often observed at ferroelectric phase with a relatively large proportion. Besides, an enhanced piezoelectric coefficient is expected in BiFeO3-based ceramics with morphotropic phase boundaries as they are already observed in thin epitaxial BiFeO3 films.

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The work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB619406), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11134004, 51177072 and 11274174) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (30920130111018).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China

    Ahmad Hussain, Xijun Xu & Guoliang Yuan

  2. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Guoliang Yuan, Jiang Yin, Junming Liu & Zhiguo Liu

  3. Precision Driving Laboratory, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Yiping Wang & Ying Yang

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Hussain, A., Xu, X., Yuan, G. et al. The development of BiFeO3-based ceramics. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 5161–5169 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0648-0

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