Perovskite lead-free dielectrics for energy storage applications

L Yang, X Kong, F Li, H Hao, Z Cheng, H Liu… - Progress in Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
The projected increase in world energy consumption within the next 50 years, coupled with
low emission requirements, has inspired an enormous effort towards the development of …

Inorganic dielectric materials for energy storage applications: a review

AA Balaraman, S Dutta - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The intricacies in identifying the appropriate material system for energy storage applications
have been the biggest struggle of the scientific community. Countless contributions by …

Lead‐free relaxor ferroelectrics

VV Shvartsman, DC Lupascu - Journal of the American …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Feature size is a natural determinant of material properties. Its design offers the
technological perspectives for material improvement. Grain size, crystallite size, domain …

Simultaneously achieving giant piezoelectricity and record coercive field enhancement in relaxor-based ferroelectric crystals

L Yang, H Huang, Z **, L Zheng, S Xu, G Tian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A large coercive field (EC) and ultrahigh piezoelectricity are essential for ferroelectrics used
in high-drive electromechanical applications. The discovery of relaxor-PbTiO3 crystals is a …

Giant energy-storage density and high efficiency achieved in (Bi 0.5 Na 0.5) TiO 3–Bi (Ni 0.5 Zr 0.5) O 3 thick films with polar nanoregions

N Sun, Y Li, Q Zhang, X Hao - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of electronic devices towards integration, miniaturization and
environmental friendliness has propelled much recent research on lead-free dielectric …

A brief review on relaxor ferroelectrics and selected issues in lead-free relaxors

CW Ahn, CH Hong, BY Choi, HP Kim, HS Han… - Journal of the Korean …, 2016 - Springer
Relaxor ferroelectricity is one of the most widely investigated but the least understood
material classes in the condensed matter physics. This is largely due to the lack of …

Remarkable energy storage performances of tungsten bronze Sr0. 53Ba0. 47Nb2O6-based lead-free relaxor ferroelectric for high-temperature capacitors application

B Yang, Y Gao, X Lou, Y Yang, Y Hu, G Zhang… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Simultaneously integrating outstanding energy storage performance and good temperature
stability in advanced ferroelectrics is a promising strategy to boost the practical application …

Piezoresponse force microscopy: a window into electromechanical behavior at the nanoscale

DA Bonnell, SV Kalinin, AL Kholkin, A Gruverman - MRS bulletin, 2009 - cambridge.org
Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is a powerful method widely used for nanoscale
studies of the electromechanical coupling effect in various materials systems. Here, we …

Enhanced Electromechanical Performance in Lead-free (Na,K)NbO3-Based Piezoceramics via the Synergistic Design of Texture Engineering and Sm-Modification

Y Liu, B Shen, L Bian, J Hao, B Yang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Next-generation electromechanical conversion devices have a significant demand for high-
performance lead-free piezoelectric materials to meet environmentally friendly requirements …

Nanoscale ferroelectric/relaxor composites: origin of large strain in lead–free Bi–based incipient piezoelectric ceramics

TH Dinh, JK Kang, JS Lee, NH Khansur… - Journal of the European …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract La–doped (Bi 0.5 Na 0.41 K 0.09) TiO 3 ceramics were synthesized using a
conventional solid–state reaction route. X–ray diffraction and electric–field–induced …