In this study, the anti-chiral negative Poisson's ratio structure BaTiO 3 piezoelectric ceramics were fabricated by vat photopolymerization 3D printing technology, which obtained an ultra-high transverse piezoelectric coefficient d 31 . Here, we performed uniaxial compressive load simulations and electric field-driven lattice in-plane strain response simulations, which showed an in-plane negative Poisson's ratio of −1 for the BaTiO 3 ceramics. Its strain amplification is about 10 times that of BaTiO 3 bulk material. Using the principle of positive and negative piezoelectric effects, we measured effective transverse piezoelectric coefficients d 31 for different dimensional parameters. The effective transverse piezoelectric coefficient d 31 with a maximum of 599 pm/V was detected at a ligament aspect ratio of 3.6 for the negative Poisson's ratio BaTiO 3 piezoelectric ceramics , which is 7.7 times higher than that of the bulk material. For the prepared hydrophone, test results show that the effective hydrostatic strain constant d h and Hydrostatic Figure of Merit (HFOM) of BaTiO 3 piezoelectric ceramics with a negative Poisson's ratio structure are 29.6 and 808 times higher than those of bulk BaTiO 3 .
Zhong-Xia Wang,Hua Zhang,Fang Wang,Hao Cheng,Wen-Hui He,Yu-Hua Liu,Xue-Qin Huang,Peng-Fei Li
Piezoelectric materials with inherent mechanical–electric coupling effect are a crucial family of functional materials in high-end information technology. For practical applications, the transverse piezoelectric performance (d31 or d32) is mainly considered, because this parameter is a vitally important index to characterize the performance of piezoelectric thin films. However, the transverse piezoelectricity of the thin films as a key figure of merit is seldom mentioned in molecular ferroelectrics. Herein, we report that a new 1D halide perovskite ferroelectric N,N-dimethylallylammoniumCdCl3 (DMAACdCl3) exhibits an above room-temperature ferroelectric phase transition with a saturated polarization of 1.9 μC cm–2 and a coercive field of 5.0 kV cm–1. The thin film of DMAACdCl3 is successfully fabricated using an easy processing spinning method and maintains well ferroelectric properties verified by piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). More significantly, the ferroelectric thin film offers superior transverse piezoelectricity with an in-plane piezoelectric response of about 41 pC N–1, which is about twice that of well-known piezoelectric polymer PVDF (21 pC N–1). Transverse piezoelectricity has been scarcely studied in molecular ferroelectrics, and its exploitation would play an important role in the design of next-generation smart piezoelectric devices.