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 …

Solid-state crystal growth of lead-free ferroelectrics

P Kabakov, C Dean, V Kurusingal, Z Cheng… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The forecasted restriction of lead containing materials in piezoelectric devices has created
vast interest into the development of alternatives, ie lead-free systems. Since the discovery …

Enhanced energy storage density by inducing defect dipoles in lead free relaxor ferroelectric BaTiO3-based ceramics

WB Li, D Zhou, LX Pang - Applied Physics Letters, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, Mn-doped 0.9 BaTiO 3-0.1 Bi (Mg 2/3 Nb 1/3) O 3 ceramics were prepared by
the conventional solid state reaction method, and the effect of defect dipoles on energy …

Simultaneously improving piezoelectric properties and temperature stability of Na0.5K0.5NbO3 (KNN)-based ceramics sintered in reducing atmosphere

Z Cen, S Bian, Z Xu, K Wang, L Guo, L Li… - Journal of Advanced …, 2021 - Springer
It is a very difficult work to sinter K 0.5 Na 0.5 NbO 3 (KNN)-based materials with good
reduction resistance in strong reducing atmosphere. 0.945 K 0.48 Na 0.52 Nb 0.96 Ta 0.04 …

The achieving enhanced piezoelectric performance of KNN-based ceramics: Decisive role of multi-phase coexistence induced by lattice distortion

P Jia, Z Zheng, Y Li, Z Li, T Liu, Y Wang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-phase coexistence induced by phase boundary regulation is an efficient approach to
promote the performance of (K, Na) NbO 3 ceramics. Here,[(1-x)(K 0.5 Na 0.5)(Nb 0.965 Sb …

Duplex structure in K0. 5Na0. 5NbO3-SrZrO3 ceramics with temperature-stable dielectric properties

Z Liu, H Fan, S Lei, X Ren, C Long - Journal of the European Ceramic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Temperature-stable dielectric properties have been developed in the 0.86 K 0.5 Na 0.5 NbO
3-0.14 SrZrO 3 solid solution system. High dielectric permittivity (ε′= 2310) with low loss …

(K, Na) NbO3-based piezoelectric single crystals: Growth methods, properties, and applications

J Koruza, H Liu, M Höfling, MH Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Piezoelectric single crystals based on the perovskite ferroelectric system (K, Na) NbO3 have
been widely investigated over the past 20 years due to large piezoelectric coefficients, high …

Understanding the origin of the high piezoelectric performance of KNN-based ceramics from the perspective of lattice distortion

W Liu, H Wang, W Hu, Y Du, C Cheng - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
Although both phase structure and fraction can affect the electrical properties of (K, Na) NbO
3 based ceramics, few studies have examined the effects of lattice distortion on their …

Improving fatigue properties, temperature stability and piezoelectric properties of KNN-based ceramics via sintering in reducing atmosphere

Z Cen, Z Dong, Z Xu, FZ Yao, L Guo, L Li… - Journal of the European …, 2021 - Elsevier
It has great research value and application potential to develop K 0.5 Na 0.5 NbO 3 (KNN)-
based ceramics with low sintering temperature (T sinter) and excellent piezoelectric …

A highly dense structure boosts energy harvesting and cycling reliabilities of a high-performance lead-free energy harvester

M Zheng, Y Hou, X Yan, L Zhang, M Zhu - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Currently, effective piezoelectric energy harvesters are based on Pb (Zr, Ti) O3 (PZT)
ceramics. However, the growing environmental concerns have been pushing the …