BiFeO3-BaTiO3: A new generation of lead-free electroceramics

D Wang, G Wang, S Murakami, Z Fan… - Journal of advanced …, 2018 - World Scientific
Lead-based electroceramics such as Pb (Zr. Ti) O3 (PZT) and its derivatives have excellent
piezoelectric, pyroelectric and energy storage properties and can be used in a wide range of …

Evaluation of the pavement geothermal energy harvesting technologies towards sustainability and renewable energy

EHH Al-Qadami, Z Mustaffa, ME Al-Atroush - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Continually using fossil fuels as the main source for producing electricity is one of the main
factors causing global warming. Through the past years, several efforts have been made …

Highly reversible extrinsic electrocaloric effects over a wide temperature range in epitaxially strained SrTiO3 films

S Zhang, J Deliyore-Ramírez, S Deng, B Nair… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Electrocaloric effects have been experimentally studied in ferroelectrics and incipient
ferroelectrics, but not incipient ferroelectrics driven ferroelectric using strain. Here we use …

Electric-field-induced phase transition and electrocaloric effect in PMN-PT

HH Wu, RE Cohen - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Ferroelectric perovskite oxides possess a large electrocaloric (EC) effect, but usually at high
temperatures near the ferroelectric/paraelectric phase transition temperature, which limits …

Cooling efficiency and losses in electrocaloric materials

N Zeggai, B Dkhil, M LoBue, M Almanza - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A figure of merit for assessing the cooling efficiency of electrocaloric (EC) materials is
defined, where the caloric properties are taken into account jointly with the material's losses …

Direct electrocaloric measurement of 0.9 Pb (Mg1/3Nb2/3) O3-0.1 PbTiO3 films using scanning thermal microscopy

S Crossley, T Usui, B Nair, S Kar-Narayan… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We show that scanning thermal microscopy can measure reversible electrocaloric (EC)
effects in< 40 μm-thick ceramic films of the relaxor ferroelectric 0.9 Pb (Mg 1/3 Nb 2/3) O 3 …

Enhancement of the electrocaloric effect over a wide temperature range in PLZT ceramics by doping with Gd3+ and Sn4+ ions

B Lu, Y Yao, X Jian, T Tao, B Liang, QM Zhang… - Journal of the European …, 2019 - Elsevier
The electrocaloric effect (ECE) in gadolinium and tin ions doped lead lanthanum zirconate
titanate ceramics was investigated. Five samples with different compositions and hence …

[HTML][HTML] The electrocaloric effect of lead-free Ba1− yCayTi1− xHfxO3 from direct and indirect measurements

D Gracia, S Lafuerza, J Blasco, M Evangelisti - APL Materials, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the dielectric and electrocaloric properties of Ba 1− y Ca y Ti 1− x Hf x O 3 for
compositions 0.12< x< 0.18 and y= 0.06, as well as x= 0.15 and 0< y< 0.15, synthesized by …

Machine-Learning-Enabled Prediction of Adiabatic Temperature Change in Lead-Free BaTiO3-Based Electrocaloric Ceramics

M Su, R Grimes, S Garg, D Xue… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we develop a data-driven machine learning (ML) approach to predict the
adiabatic temperature change (Δ T) in BaTiO3-based ceramics as a function of chemical …

Electrocaloric effects in the lead-free relaxor ferroelectric from atomistic simulations

Z Jiang, S Prokhorenko, S Prosandeev, Y Nahas… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Atomistic effective Hamiltonian simulations are used to investigate electrocaloric (EC) effects
in the lead-free Ba (Zr 0.5 Ti 0.5) O 3 (BZT) relaxor ferroelectric. We find that the EC …