Kandula Kumara Raja, Asthana Saket, Raavi Sai Santosh Kumar
Advanced Functional Materials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi, Sangareddy 502285 Telangana India
RSC Adv. 2018 Apr 23;8(28):15282-15289. doi: 10.1039/c8ra01349g.
Herein, we present comprehensive investigations of the optical and electrical properties of Nd substitution in sodium bismuth titanate ceramics (NBNT) with varying Nd concentration. The room temperature photoluminescence (PL) emission for both unpoled and poled samples is observed to be a maximum for an Nd substitution of 1 mol%. Upon poling, the PL intensity is observed to be quenched, consistent with the obtained XRD data, indicating an electric-field induced structural ordering towards higher symmetry, confirmed with the help of structural refinement. The evaluated ferroelectric to relaxor and antiferroelectric relaxor was observed clearly from the poled dielectric-loss curve for the 1 mol% of Nd substitution. Furthermore, the optimized NBNT exhibited a lower and a higher off-resonance figure of merit (FOM) for energy harvesting by 12% and 30%, respectively, in comparison with un-doped NBT.