Low-Temperature, Single Step, Reactive Sintering of Lead Magnesium Niobate Using Mg(OH)2-Coated Nb2O5 Powders |
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| Authors: | Huiming Gu Wan Y Shih Wei-Heng Shih |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Materials Science &Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 |
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| Abstract: | A low-temperature, single step, reactive sintering method for Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN) and PMN–PbTiO3 (PMN–PT) processing was developed based on the coating of Mg(OH)2 on Nb2O5. This method simplified the processing of PMN and PMN–PT to a single step of heat-treatment and decreased the sintering temperature to 1000°C. It was found that the pyrochlore phase formation reaction at 500°C reduced the particle size to 130 nm. The overlap of the pyrochlor-perovskite phase transformation between 700° and 900°C and the densification process between 800° and 1000°C improved the sintering process. These two factors were the major reasons of the low temperature sintering. |
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