Local structure engineered lead-free ferroic dielectrics for superior energy-storage capacitors: a review

H Qi, A Xie, R Zuo - Energy Storage Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
With the development of energy-storage technology and power electronics industry,
dielectric capacitors with high energy density are in high demand owing to their high power …

Recent development in lead-free perovskite piezoelectric bulk materials

T Zheng, J Wu, D Xiao, J Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
The elimination of lead in piezoelectric applications remains challenging. Since the
advances in the piezoelectricity were found in the perovskite family in 2000, studies into lead …

Emerging new phase boundary in potassium sodium-niobate based ceramics

X Lv, J Zhu, D Xiao, X Zhang, J Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing eco-friendly high-performance piezoceramics without lead has become one of
the most advanced frontiers in interdisciplinary research. Although potassium sodium …

Evolution from lead‐based to lead‐free piezoelectrics: engineering of lattices, domains, boundaries, and defects leading to giant response

M Waqar, H Wu, J Chen, K Yao, J Wang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric materials are known to mankind for more than a century, with numerous
advancements made in both scientific understandings and practical applications. In the last …

Superior piezoelectric properties in potassium–sodium niobate lead‐free ceramics

K Xu, J Li, X Lv, J Wu, X Zhang, D Xiao… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201601859 d33 of> 400 pC N− 1 by the modification of the
rhombohedral–tetragonal (R–T) phase boundary and domain structures.[8, 9] Rödel and Jo …

Potassium–sodium niobate lead-free piezoelectric materials: past, present, and future of phase boundaries

J Wu, D Xiao, J Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
High-performance piezoceramics are some of the most important and widely used materials,
and as such research into this topic is at the forefront of high-technology advanced …

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 …

(K, Na)NbO3‐Based Lead‐Free Piezoceramics: Fundamental Aspects, Processing Technologies, and Remaining Challenges

JF Li, K Wang, FY Zhu, LQ Cheng… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Ferroelectric domains in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite thin-films

H Röhm, T Leonhard, MJ Hoffmann… - Energy & Environmental …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We explore the ferroic properties of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells by
piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). In vertical and horizontal PFM imaging, we find …

Emergence of ferroelectricity in halide perovskites

S Shahrokhi, W Gao, Y Wang, PR Anandan… - Small …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite oxides such as PbZrxTi1− xO3 (PZT) and BaTiO3 show excellent dielectric,
piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and ferroelectric properties simultaneously and have been widely …