| 摘要 |
Provided is a piezoelectric material in which the product of the piezoelectric constant and the Young's modulus is large to give excellent piezoelectricity without using lead. A piezoelectric material including a perovskite type crystal represented by a compositional formula of ABO2N wherein A represents a trivalent cation, and B represents a tetravalent cation provided that A and B are each other than lead, wherein when the number of nitrogen N atoms contained in the piezoelectric material is represented by Nxyz and the number of nitrogen atoms each disposed at a face-centered position in the crystal and in a long axis direction of the crystal, out of the nitrogen atoms the number of which is Nxyz, is represented by Nz, an expression of Nz/Nxyz>1/3 is satisfied. It is preferred that A and B are La and Ti, respectively.
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