An oxygen defect-related dielectric relaxation behaviors of lead-free Ba(HfxTi1-x)O-3 ferroelectric ceramics

作者:Li, Ming-Ding; Tang, Xin-Gui*; Zeng, Si-Ming; Jiang, Yan-Ping; Liu, Qiu-Xiang; Zhang, Tian-Fu; Li, Wen-Hua
来源:Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics , 2018, 51(48): 485302.
DOI:10.1088/1361-6463/aae3db

摘要

The structure, dielectric, ferroelectric property and high-temperature dielectric relaxation behaviors (HTRBs) were systematically studied for the first time in the Ba(HfxTi1-x)O-3 ferroelectric ceramics. It was noted that the T-C of the Ba(HfxTi1-x)O-3 ceramics decreases, while T-O and T-R increases with the increase of Hf quantity. Furthermore, the HTRBs were observed in all samples. Mechanisms of HTRBs were studied from complex impedance and ac conductivity, exposing that it was concerned with the drifting of oxygen vacancies (OVAs). Based on the value of theoretical calculation for activation energy, it was concluded that the HTRBs were attributed to the short distance hopping of the OVAs and the conduction was ascribed to the long-range move of doubly-ionized OVAs in Ba(HfxTi1-x)O-3 system. Meanwhile, electron paramagnetic resonance spectra were measured to detect the defects in BHTO ceramics. The results showed that the OVAs-related defect signals were observed at g = 1.942. In addition, the dielectric constant peak of relaxation could be significantly restrained by O-2 annealing. This further proved that the HTRBs being associated with the defect of oxygen.