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Abstract Lead-free piezoelectric ceramics [(Ba 0.85 Ca 0.15 )(Ti 0.90 Zr 0.10 )O 3- xBiErO 3 (BCTZ-xBE)] doped with a new doping material BiErO 3 (BE) has been synthesized successfully via solid state reaction technique, and their structural, dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric properties have been investigated. A high dielectric constant with very low dielectric loss and high remnant polarization followed by a low coercive field has been obtained with the addition of x = 0.5 BE. Bulk ferroelectric hysteresis loops were obtained with a maximum polarization P max = 26.7 μC/cm 2 and a saturation polarization P s = 16.65  μC/cm 2 along with a coercive field of E c ≈ 2.45 kV/cm. Results demonstrate an induced-strain increasing from ~ 0.11 to ~ 0.24 for x = 0.5, excellent piezoelectricity with d 33 =  560 pC/N, k p =  56%, Q m =  196, e m = 11,200 and tan δ =  0.01.