TY - JOUR
T1 - Low-Temperature Co-Fired Unipoled Multilayer Piezoelectric Transformers
AU - Gao, Xiangyu
AU - Yan, Yongke
AU - Carazo, Alfredo Vazquez
AU - Dong, Shuxiang
AU - Priya, Shashank
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received April 11, 2017; accepted December 17, 2017. Date of publication December 20, 2017; date of current version March 1, 2018. This work was supported in part by the DARPA MATRIX Program and in part by the China Scholarship Council. (Corresponding authors: Yongke Yan; Alfredo Vazquez Carazo; Shuxiang Dong; Shashank Priya.) X. Gao is with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China, and also with the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA.
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PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - The reliability of piezoelectric transformers (PTs) is dependent upon the quality of fabrication technique as any heterogeneity, prestress, or misalignment can lead to spurious response. In this paper, unipoled multilayer PTs were investigated focusing on high-power composition and co-firing profile in order to provide low-temperature synthesized high-quality device measured in terms of efficiency and power density. The addition of 0.2 wt% CuO into Pb0.98Sr0.02(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.06(Mn1/3Nb2/3)0.06(Zr0.48Ti0.52)0.88O3 (PMMnN-PZT) reduces the co-firing temperature from 1240 °C to 930 °C, which allows the use of Ag/Pd inner electrode instead of noble Pt inner electrode. Low-temperature synthesized material was found to exhibit excellent piezoelectric properties (Qm = 1300, kp= 0.47, tan δ = 0.4 %, d33 = 218 pC/N, and Tc= 325 °C). The performance of the PT co-fired with Ag/Pd electrode at 930 °C was similar to that co-fired at 1240 °C with Pt electrode (25% reduction in sintering temperature). Both high- and low-temperature synthesized PTs demonstrated 5-W output power with >90% efficiency and 11.5 W/cm3 power density.
AB - The reliability of piezoelectric transformers (PTs) is dependent upon the quality of fabrication technique as any heterogeneity, prestress, or misalignment can lead to spurious response. In this paper, unipoled multilayer PTs were investigated focusing on high-power composition and co-firing profile in order to provide low-temperature synthesized high-quality device measured in terms of efficiency and power density. The addition of 0.2 wt% CuO into Pb0.98Sr0.02(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.06(Mn1/3Nb2/3)0.06(Zr0.48Ti0.52)0.88O3 (PMMnN-PZT) reduces the co-firing temperature from 1240 °C to 930 °C, which allows the use of Ag/Pd inner electrode instead of noble Pt inner electrode. Low-temperature synthesized material was found to exhibit excellent piezoelectric properties (Qm = 1300, kp= 0.47, tan δ = 0.4 %, d33 = 218 pC/N, and Tc= 325 °C). The performance of the PT co-fired with Ag/Pd electrode at 930 °C was similar to that co-fired at 1240 °C with Pt electrode (25% reduction in sintering temperature). Both high- and low-temperature synthesized PTs demonstrated 5-W output power with >90% efficiency and 11.5 W/cm3 power density.
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U2 - 10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2785356
DO - 10.1109/TUFFC.2017.2785356
M3 - Article
C2 - 29505417
AN - SCOPUS:85039770197
SN - 0885-3010
VL - 65
SP - 513
EP - 519
JO - IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics
IS - 3
ER -