This work reports the influence of sintering temperature on structure, microstructure and piezoelectric properties of 0.48 Ba(Zr $_{0.2}$ $_{0.2}$ Ti $_{0.8}$ $_{0.8}$ )O₃–0.52 (Ba $_{0.7}$ $_{0.7}$ Ca $_{0.3}$ $_{0.3}$ )TiO₃(BZT–BCT) doped with ZnO nanoparticle ceramics manufactured by a conventional solid state reaction method. By increasing sintering temperature, the piezoelectric behaviors were improved and rose up to the best parameters at a sintering temperature of 1450 $^{\circ}$ $^{\circ}$ C ( $d_{33} = 576$ $d_{33} = 576$ pC/N and $k_{p} = 0.55$ $k_{p} = 0.55$ ). The corresponding properties of undoped BZT–BCT ceramics were investigated as a comparison. The received results show that the sintering behavior and piezo-parameters of doped BZT–BCT samples are better than the undoped BZT–BCT samples at each sintering temperature.

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