S. Said et Jp. Mercurio, Relaxor behaviour of low lead and lead free ferroelectric ceramics of the Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-PbTiO3 and Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-K0.5Bi0.5TiO3 systems, J EUR CERAM, 21(10-11), 2001, pp. 1333-1336
Ceramics with compositions belonging to the Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-PbTiO3 and Na0.5
Bi0.5TiO3-K0.5Bi0.5TiO3 systems were fabricated by natural sintering of pow
ders prepared by thermal decomposition of adequate precursor solutions. The
ferroelectric to paraelectric phase transitions were studied by variable t
emperature X-ray diffractometry, differential scanning calorimetry and impe
dance measurement in a wide range of temperature and frequency. In contrast
with pure NBT, both the permittivity and dielectric loss of the NBT-rich s
olid solutions show a strongly temperature and frequency dependent behaviou
r. The permittivity decreases and its maximum is shifted towards high tempe
ratures as the frequency increases. In the high temperature range, the ther
mal variation of the permittivity is well described by 1/epsilon - 1/epsilo
n (m) = C(T- T-m)(gamma) with gamma close to 1.5. Such a relaxor-like behav
iour is interpreted in terms of cation disorder due to the statistical repa
rtition of (Na,Bi) and Pb (or Na and K). This would be one very rare case o
f relaxor phenomena correlated with the A-site occupancy in perovskite-like
materials. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.