Environment‐friendly lead‐free piezoelectric ceramics have been studied extensively in the
past decade with great progress particularly in systems based on a niobate perovskite …

Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical energy into electric energy, and vice versa. They
have been applied in many critical fields, such as motor vehicles, medical devices, the …

Smart windows with adjustable transmittance via physical stimuli are eagerly desired for
sorts of energy‐saving lighting systems. However, reciprocal trade‐off relationship such as …

Recent breakthroughs in defect‐engineered lead‐free piezoelectric ceramics have reported
remarkable electrostrain values, surpassing the limit of lattice distortion. This has aroused …

By simply do** with a certain amount of Sm3+, opaque lead-free (K0. 5Na0. 5) NbO3
piezoelectric ceramics were fabricated into transparent/translucent ceramics. The …

Smart windows have attracted considerable attention due to their wide applications in
optical data storage, switchable sunroof and temperature sensing. The development …

A combination of transparency and photochromic (PC) properties in ferroelectrics has
promising application potential in smart windows and optical storage/imaging. Nonetheless …

Since the extrinsic contribution is the key to electric-field-induced strain in ferroelectrics,
engineering the interaction between defect and domain-wall motion has been an effective …

Crystal structures and electrical properties of (Na 0.5 K 0.5) 1− x Li x NbO 3 (x= 0, 0.055,
0.06, 0.065, 0.07; KNN-xLi) ceramics were investigated systematically. Rietveld refinements …

Ferroelectrics that simultaneously possess optical transparency and photochromic (PC)
behavior have attracted extensive attention for multi-functionality. However, inability to …