Issue 2, 2019

Enhanced energy-storage performance with excellent stability under low electric fields in BNT–ST relaxor ferroelectric ceramics

Abstract

Relaxor ferroelectrics are promising candidates for pulsed power dielectric capacitor applications because of their excellent energy-storage properties. Different from most relaxor ferroelectrics whose energy-storage density was improved by increasing the breakdown strength and reducing the remanent polarization, in this study, anti-ferroelectric (AFE) AgNbO3 (AN) was used to partially substitute the relaxor ferroelectric 0.76Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3–0.24SrTiO3 (BNT–ST) of morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) composition to reduce the remanent polarization while maintaining large maximum polarization. In this way, a large recoverable energy-storage density (2.03 J cm−3) was obtained in the BNT–ST–5AN ceramics under lower electric field of 120 kV cm−1, which is superior to other lead-free energy-storage materials under similar electric fields. Moreover, excellent temperature (25–175 °C) and frequency (1–100 Hz) stabilities are achieved. This performance demonstrates that the BNT–ST–5AN ceramics form a promising class of dielectric capacitive material for high-temperature pulsed power capacitors with large energy-storage density.

Graphical abstract: Enhanced energy-storage performance with excellent stability under low electric fields in BNT–ST relaxor ferroelectric ceramics

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Sept. 2018
Accepted
23 Nov. 2018
First published
03 Dec. 2018

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019,7, 281-288

Enhanced energy-storage performance with excellent stability under low electric fields in BNT–ST relaxor ferroelectric ceramics

W. Ma, Y. Zhu, M. A. Marwat, P. Fan, B. Xie, D. Salamon, Z. Ye and H. Zhang, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 281 DOI: 10.1039/C8TC04447C

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