Magnetoelectric Coupling Induced Electric Dipole Glass State in Heisenberg Spin Glass

Multiferroic behavior in an isotropic Heisenberg spin glass with Gaussian random fields, incorporated by magneto-electric coupling derived from the Landau symmetry argument, are investigated. Electric dipole glass transitions at finite temperature, due to coupling, are demonstrated by Monte Carlo simulation. This electric dipole glass state is solely ascribed to the coupling term with chiral symmetry of the magnetization, while the term associated with the spatial derivative of the squared magnetization has no contribution.     

Properties of Co-Doped 0.92（Na0.5Bi0.5） TiO3-0.08BaTiO3 Lead-Free Ceramics

Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics 0.92（Bi0.5Na0.5）TiO3-0.08BaTiO3 ＋ xmol% Co3＋ （BNBT-Co, x = 0-8） are prepared by the solid state reaction method. Effects of the amount of Co^3＋ on the electrical properties and phase transition are studied. The results indicate that the addition of Co^3＋ enhances the mechanical quality factor Q^3＋ significantly, whereas the dissipation factor tanδ has a minimum value at x = 3.5. Meanwhile, addition of Co^3＋ leads to small decreases of piezoelectric constant d33, and planar electromechanical coupling kp. The present 0.92（Bio.aNao.5） TiO3-0.08BaTiO3＋3.5 moi% Co^3＋ ceramics exhibit good performance with mechanical quality factor Qm = 910, piezoelectric constant d33 = 106pC/N, planar electromechanical coupling kp =10% and dissipation factor tanδ = 1.1% at 1 kHz. Saturated polarization hysteresis loops have been obtained for BNBT-Co ceramics. Two dielectric peaks at depolarization temperature Td and Tm appear in the curves of ε33^T vs temperature for the pure BNBT ceramics. However, the first dielectric peak Td disappears after the addition of Co^3＋, which means that the transition from ferroelectric to antiferroelectric phase has been eliminated.     

Dielectric and Pyroelectric Properties of （Pb0.50Sr0.50）TiO3 Ceramics

Lead strontium titanate （Pb0.50Sr0.50）TiO3 （PST） ceramics are prepared by the traditional ceramic processing. The dielectric constants and dielectric loss have been investigated in a temperature range from 25℃ to 300℃. The maximum dielectric constants for unpoled and poled samples are 9924 and 9683, respectively. The temperatures of phase transition for unpoled and poled samples are observed at 153℃ and 157℃, respectively. The phasetransition temperatures for unpoled and poled samples are not equal, which results from the polarization state of the domains. The remnant polarization and the coercive electric field are 18 uC/cm^2 and 6 kV/cm, respectively, from polarization-electric field （P - E） hysteresis loop. The temperature dependence of pyroelectric coefficients of the PST ceramics is measured by a dynamic technique. The dielectric constant and loss Lan δ of the poled PST ceramics are 813 and 0.010, respectively. The pyroelectric coefficients and figure of merit are 294 uC/cm^2 K and 13.6 × 10^-6 pa^-0.5, respectively, at room temperature 25℃and frequency lOOHz.     

Novel syndiotactic polystyrene/BaTiO3-graphite nanosheets three-phase composites with high dielectric permittivity

Novel three-phase composites were prepared by embedding graphite nanosheets (GNs) and BaTiO₃ nanoparticles into syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) matrix via a solution blending and flocculation method. The dependences of electric and dielectric properties of the resultant sPS/BaTiO₃-GNs composites on volume fractions of GNs (f_GNs) and frequency were investigated. The percolation theory was employed to explain the electric and dielectric behavior of sPS/BaTiO₃-GNs composite. It was found that the sPS/BaTiO₃-GNs composite showed an obvious insulator-conductor transition with a much low percolation threshold of f_GNs = 1.44 vol%. The dielectric permittivity of sPS/BaTiO₃-GNs composite reached as high as 51.8 at 100 Hz at percolation threshold, which was about 18 and 7 times higher than that of pure sPS and sPS/BaTiO₃ composite, respectively.