Abstract:
The internal friction
Q-1 and the square of vibration frequency
f2(proportional to shear modulus G) were measured as a function of temperature on undoped Pb(Zr
0.7Ti
0.3) O
3 (PZT73) and Pb(Zr
0.3Ti
0.7) O
3 (PZT37) ceramics from 20 ℃ to 500 ℃. Experiments were performed on an inverted torsion pendulum at low frequencies (1~5 Hz). Two internal friction peaks were found in pure rhombohedral PZT73 ceramics. The high temperature peak P
M, which appears at the Curie temperature, originates from the para-ferroelectric phase transition. The low temperature peak P1 is a broadened Debye peak in nature, and it is contributed to the oscillation damping of the domain walls locked by the oxygen vacancies. For the pure tetragonal PZT37 ceramics, another peak P
2,which appears between P
1 and P
M,can be well described by the coupling model. It is thought to be related with the relaxation of oxygen vacancy clusters near the 90° domains.