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• Main Author: MUHAMAD SUBHI (NIM : 10208046); Pembimbing : Dr. Pepen Arifin, FAJAR
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/18443
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Piezoelectricity is a phenomenon which represents a class of materials that can transform mechanical energy directly into electrical energy and vice versa. One of the ceramic based piezoelectric material is lead-zirconium-titanate (PZT), which has excellence properties compared to other types of piezoelectric materials. Its fabrication processes are relatively easy and inexpensive. Various attempts were made to improve the piezoelectric properties to be properly used for certain types of applications. Efort has been made to set the PZT ceramic composition at its morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), by chemical modification or administering doping and sintering temperature variation. In this final project report, PZT ceramics were synthesized using powder processing method. The crucial step of this processing was the sintering process, which was carried out at high temperature in order to produce good structures and optimum piezoelectric properties. The sintering temperature were varied between 950oC and 1200oC. The purpose of this temperature variation is to study the effect of sintering temperature on the piezoelectric propertie, their morphology and composition. It is expected that by variation of sintering temperature lead to the understanding of the crystal growth and eventually produce PZT piezoelectric ceramics which able to demonstrate superior piezoelectric properties and can be applied to electronic devices.