Texture analysis of thick bismuth ferrite lead titanate layers

Abstract

The template grain growth technique was used to synthesis textured 60BiFeO(3)-PbTiO3 (60:40BFPT) by using platelets of BaTiO3 as template. Synchrotron measurement clearly showed textured 60:40BFPT. Moreover, in situ high energy synchrotron radiation was employed to investigate the influence of an external electric filed on crystallographic structure of mixed phase 60:40BFPT. Application of an electric field >= 1 kV/mm resulted in phase transformation from mixed rhombohedral/tetragonal phases (approximate to 73.5% tetragonal / 26.5% rhombohedral) to predominately tetragonal phase (approximate to 95%) at applied field of 6 kV/mm. A crystallographic texture refinement was done by using software package materials analysis using diffraction (MAUD) with a 4th order spherical harmonic orientation distribution function (ODF). This refinement was completed using a P4mm+Cm structure model. Texture coefficients were constrained such that the equivalent texture coefficients of each phase are the same. The resulting texture refinement determined that sample has a 1.3 multiples of random distribution (MRD) {100} crystallographic texture.