Harvesting waste heat for useful purposes is an essential component of improving the
efficiency of primary energy utilization. Today, approaches such as pyroelectric energy …

Antiferroelectric materials for dielectric energy storage with fast charging-discharging rate is
an important research direction. In this study, to build a platform for the potential application …

Lanthanum has been identified as a promising dopant to achieve ferroelectricity in HfO 2
thin films in recent theoretical and experimental studies. In this work, the pyroelectric …

The pyroelectric response of materials is a promising phenomenon that is used in many
applications. Here, we report first-principles lattice dynamics and ab initio molecular …

The occurrence of the inverse (or negative) electrocaloric effect, where the isothermal
application of an electric field leads to an increase in entropy and the removal of the field …

Pyroelectrics are a material class that undergoes a change in polarization as the
temperature of the system is varied. This effect can be utilized for applications ranging from …

Electrocaloric properties of [110] and [111] oriented 0.73 Pb (Mg1/3Nb2/3) O3-0.27 PbTiO3
single crystals were studied in the temperature range of 293–423 K. The Maxwell relations …

Applications such as solid-state waste-heat energy conversion, infrared sensing, and
thermally-driven electron emission rely on pyroelectric materials (a subclass of dielectric …

Pyroelectric energy-conversion research is focused on harvesting from waste heat.
Meanwhile, there is a need for portable power with extended lifetimes and energy densities …

A high-performance piezoelectric material, 0.95 Pb (Zr0. 52Ti0. 48) O3-0.05 Pb
(Mn1/3Nb2/3) O3 (PZT-PMnN) ceramic, was prepared by using a spark plasma sintering …