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Growth of large and homogeneous PZN-PT single crystals for medical ultrasonic array transducers
Description
Large piezoelectric single crystals of Pb[(Zn/sub 1/3/Nb/sub 2/3/)/sub 0.91/Ti/sub 0.09/]O/sub 3/ (PZN-PT 91/9) with high uniformity have been successfully obtained by a novel self-flux method. The best quality crystal had dimensions of 40/spl times/ 35/spl times/30 mm and weighed 330 g. Eight slices of the [100] wafer, which has an area of 25/spl times/18 mm without any inclusions of PbO flux or cracks, were obtained. The suppression of inclusions was attributable to deceleration of the growth rate by moderating the amount of raw materials. The suitable selection of the {100} plane to be sliced, i.e, the plane approximately parallel to the nucleation plane, is effective for improving the homogeneity of the wafer. In the 15/spl times/20 mm area required for a phased-array transducer, the variations of rectangular bar-mode coupling factor (k/sub 33/') and dielectric constant were within /spl plusmn/5% and /spl plusmn/10% of the average values, respectively. This confirms that large and highly homogeneity PZN-PT 91/9 single crystals for phased-array transducers can be grown using the novel flux method.
Journal
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- ISAF 1998. Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (Cat. No.98CH36245)
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ISAF 1998. Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (Cat. No.98CH36245) 235-238, 2002-11-28
IEEE
