Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramic Materials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen 333001, China
Abstract Inter-growth bismuth layer-structured ferroelectrics (BLSFs), Bi4Ti3O12–Na0.5Bi4.5Ti4O15 (BIT–NBT), were successfully synthesized using the traditional solid-state reaction method. X-ray diffraction (XRD) Rietveld refinements were conducted using GSAS software. Good agreement and low residual are obtained. The XRD diffraction peaks can be well indexed into I2cm space group. The inter-growth structure was further observed in the high-resolution TEM image. Dielectric and impedance properties were measured and systematically analyzed. At the temperature range 763–923 K (below Tc), doubly ionized oxygen vacancies (OVs) are localized and the short-range hopping leads to the relaxation processes with an activation energy of 0.79–1.01 eV. Above Tc, the doubly charged OVs are delocalized and become free ones, which contribute to the long-range dc conduction. The reduction in relaxation species gives rise to a higher relaxation activation energy~1.6 eV.
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