Patent ID: 8506058

Claim:
A liquid ejecting head comprising a pressure generating chamber communicating with a nozzle for ejecting liquid droplets and a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric layer and a pair of electrodes disposed on either side of the piezoelectric layer, wherein the piezoelectric layer is made of a perovskite-type oxide containing barium titanate, calcium titanate, europium oxide, and zirconium oxide, wherein the piezoelectric layer is made of a perovskite-type oxide represented by the following Formula (1): x [BaTiO 3 ]-(1− x )[CaTiO 3 ]- y [Eu 2 O 3 ]- z [ZrO 2 ] (1) (wherein, 0.93≦x≦0.95, 0.005≦y≦0.01, 0.005≦z≦0.01).