However, the piezoelectric properties of PT-based textured ceramics have still been significantly lower than their ideal values after a long-term effort. Therefore, in recent years, how to make the piezoelectric properties of textured ceramics approach the level of single crystals has become an important issue in the field of piezoelectric ceramics. In this talk, the recent progress of textured piezoelectric ceramics will be introduced, including the design of new microplatelet templates, sintering aids, material compositions and texturing process. Based these new developments, some textured piezoelectric ceramics currently show comparable piezoelectricity to that of single crystal counterparts. In addition, some interesting characteristics of textured piezoelectric ceramics, e.g., near-zero planar Poisson’s ratio and ultrahigh piezoelectric voltage coefficients, will be discussed in this talk. We believe that the high piezoelectric performance in combined with much lower fabrication cost and higher mechanical strength in contrast to single crystal counterparts will make textured piezoelectric ceramics of great importance for advanced electromechanical applications, especially for the piezoelectric devices in the field of 3C, where both high-performance, strong reliability and acceptable cost of piezoelectric elements are highly required.
