Local structural heterogeneity and electromechanical responses of ferroelectrics: learning from relaxor ferroelectrics

F Li, S Zhang, D Damjanovic, LQ Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐range ordering of dipoles is a key microscopic signature of ferroelectrics. These
ordered dipoles form ferroelectric domains, which can be reoriented by electric fields …

Nano-domains in lead-free piezoceramics: a review

X Lv, X Zhang, J Wu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Reducing or even prohibiting the use of toxic lead in electronic devices has become one of
the most cutting-edge topics in various disciplines. The recently proposed phase boundary …

Thin‐film ferroelectrics

A Fernandez, M Acharya, HG Lee, J Schimpf… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 30 years, the study of ferroelectric oxides has been revolutionized by the
implementation of epitaxial‐thin‐film‐based studies, which have driven many advances in …

Strategies to improve the energy storage properties of perovskite lead-free relaxor ferroelectrics: a review

V Veerapandiyan, F Benes, T Gindel, M Deluca - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Electrical energy storage systems (EESSs) with high energy density and power density are
essential for the effective miniaturization of future electronic devices. Among different EESSs …

Atomic scale symmetry and polar nanoclusters in the paraelectric phase of ferroelectric materials

A Bencan, E Oveisi, S Hashemizadeh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The nature of the “forbidden” local-and long-range polar order in nominally non-polar
paraelectric phases of ferroelectric materials has been an open question since the discovery …

The relation of local order to material properties in relaxor ferroelectrics

MJ Krogstad, PM Gehring, S Rosenkranz, R Osborn… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Correlating electromechanical and dielectric properties with nanometre-scale order is the
defining challenge for the development of piezoelectric oxides. Current lead (Pb)-based …

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 …

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 …

Large flexoelectric anisotropy in paraelectric barium titanate

J Narvaez, S Saremi, J Hong, M Stengel, G Catalan - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The bending-induced polarization of barium titanate single crystals has been measured with
an aim to elucidate the origin of the large difference between theoretically predicted and …

Stress-modulated relaxor-to-ferroelectric transition in lead-free ferroelectrics

FH Schader, Z Wang, M Hinterstein, JE Daniels… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The effect of external mechanical fields on relaxor 0.94 (N a 1/2 B i 1/2) Ti O 3-0.06 BaTi O 3
was investigated by means of temperature-and stress-dependent dielectric constant …