2014 年 39 巻 2 号 p. 199-202
(111)-oriented Mn and Nb-doped barium titanate (BaTiO3, BT) ceramics with fine grains were fabricated with an electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method in a high magnetic field and a topotactic phase transition. Initially, accumulations of (0001)-oriented hexagonal Ba(Ti0.95Mn0.05)O3 particles added with 2.5 mol%-Nb2O5 powder were prepared by the EPD method in the high magnetic field of 12 T. Then, the (111)-oriented, Mn and Nb-doped pseudo-cubic BT ceramics with fine grains of ~0.4 µm in diameter were obtained via the topotactic phase transition, with the degree of the (111) orientation being as high as 79 %. The piezoelectric properties of the oriented ceramics were also studied.