Jürgen Rödel

TL;DR: In this paper, general guidelines for the development of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics are presented, ranging from atom to phase diagram, and the current development stage in lead free piezoceramics is then critically assessed.

TL;DR: In this article, a figure of merit analysis for key devices is presented and used to contrast lead-containing and lead-free piezoceramics for demanding applications with high reliability, displacements and frequency as well as a wide temperature range.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of a class of lead-free (0.94−x)Bi0.5Na 0.5TiO3-0.06BaTiO 3−xK0.4NbO3 ceramics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the status and perspectives of this new class of actuator ceramics are presented, aiming at covering a wide spectrum of topics, i.e., from fundamentals to practice, and a recent discovery has greatly extended our tool box for material design by furnishing (Bi 1/2Na1/2)TiO3-based (PZT) with a reversible phase transition between an ergodic relaxor state and a ferroelectric with the application of electric field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the temperature-dependent dielectric permittivity of BNT-6BT was studied to disentangle the existing unclear issues over the crystallographic aspects and phase stability of the system.