World Scientific Publishing, Functional Materials Letters, 03(05), p. 1250027
DOI: 10.1142/s1793604712500270
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The ferroelectric fatigue behavior of lead zirconate titanate was investigated under different temperatures (room temperature and 125°C). A bipolar electric field of ±1.5 kV/mm at a frequency of 50 Hz was applied to the samples up to 2 × 105 cycles. A markedly different fatigue rate was observed dependent on temperature. The fatigue degradation represented by the loss of polarization and strain increases with the number of cycles and is more pronounced in the case of the lower temperature. Brennan's model based on a logarithmic fatigue rate is applied to explain the temperature effect on fatigue behavior due to the pinning effect.