Thermal probing of morphotropic phase boundary of Pb(Mg0.33Nb0.67) O3-PbTiO3: arrott plot as pyroelectric figure of merit
摘要
For efficient waste ambient energy harvesting, high piezoelectric charge coefficient (d33) and pyroelectric coefficients (π) with low dielectric constant (ε) are anticipated. A high degree of correlation among d33, π and ε parameters restrict energy harvesting efficiency. Morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) based compounds demonstrate technologically appealing characteristics – enhanced dielectric, piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties, provide opportunity to realize optimized figure of merits (FOMs). PbTiO3, a promising piezoelectric and ferroelectric material, is compositionally tuned with Pb(Mg0.33Nb0.67)O3 to realize MPB driven exotic characteristics. Here, we synthesized a series of MPB based solid solutions (1-x) Pb(Mg0.33Nb0.67)O3-(x)PbTiO3 (x= 0.28, 0.29, 0.30 and 0.31) [PMN-PT] using the solid-state route. Enhanced piezoelectric properties were observed for the composition x = 0.29, including piezoelectric charge coefficient (d33) of ~320 pC/N, piezoelectric voltage coefficient (g33) ~ 0.0084 Vm/N, and transducer coefficient (d33 × g33) ~ 2784 × 10-15 m2/N. Furthermore, the x = 0.29 composition demonstrated high potential for thermoelectric energy conversion, as revealed by Olsen cycle analysis. Present study emphasizes on Olsen cycle based thermoelectric performance of a material further assessed qualitatively using the Arrott plot approach.