Progress on emerging ferroelectric materials for energy harvesting, storage and conversion

XK Wei, N Domingo, Y Sun, N Balke… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of Rochelle salt a century ago, ferroelectric materials have been
investigated extensively due to their robust responses to electric, mechanical, thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in atomic-resolution aberration corrected conventional transmission electron microscopy (CTEM)

KW Urban, J Barthel, L Houben, CL Jia, L Jin… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Transmission electron microscopy is an indispensable tool in modern materials science. It
enables the structure of materials to be studied with high spatial resolution, and thus makes …

Antiferroelectrics: History, fundamentals, crystal chemistry, crystal structures, size effects, and applications

CA Randall, Z Fan, I Reaney, LQ Chen… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Antiferroelectric (AFE) materials are of great interest owing to their scientific richness and
their utility in high‐energy density capacitors. Here, the history of AFEs is reviewed, and the …

Unveiling the ferrielectric nature of PbZrO3-based antiferroelectric materials

Z Fu, X Chen, Z Li, T Hu, L Zhang, P Lu, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Benefitting from the reversible phase transition between antiferroelectric and ferroelectric
states, antiferroelectric materials have recently received widespread attentions for energy …

Significantly enhanced energy storage performance of rare-earth-modified silver niobate lead-free antiferroelectric ceramics via local chemical pressure tailoring

S Li, H Nie, G Wang, C Xu, N Liu, M Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Silver niobate (AgNbO3) is considered as one of the most promising lead-free replacements
for lead-containing antiferroelectric (AFE) ceramics, and has been drawing progressively …

La/Mn Codoped AgNbO3 Lead-Free Antiferroelectric Ceramics with Large Energy Density and Power Density

C Xu, Z Fu, Z Liu, L Wang, S Yan, X Chen… - ACS Sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Dielectric materials with high energy density have attracted much attention due to their
potential applications in modern electronics and electrical power systems. In this work, a …

Electric and antiferromagnetic chiral textures at multiferroic domain walls

JY Chauleau, T Chirac, S Fusil, V Garcia, W Akhtar… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Chirality, a foundational concept throughout science, may arise at ferromagnetic domain
walls and in related objects such as skyrmions. However, chiral textures should also exist in …

Piezoelectric domain walls in van der Waals antiferroelectric CuInP2Se6

A Dziaugys, K Kelley, JA Brehm, L Tao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Polar van der Waals chalcogenophosphates exhibit unique properties, such as negative
electrostriction and multi-well ferrielectricity, and enable combining dielectric and 2D …

An Unconventional Transient Phase with Cycloidal Order of Polarization in Energy‐Storage Antiferroelectric PbZrO3

XK Wei, CL Jia, HC Du, K Roleder, J Mayer… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Antiferroelectric‐based dielectric capacitors are receiving tremendous attention for their
outstanding energy‐storage performance and extraordinary flexibility in collecting pulsed …

Multiple soft-mode vibrations of lead zirconate

J Hlinka, T Ostapchuk, E Buixaderas, C Kadlec… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
Polarized Raman, IR, and time-domain THz spectroscopy of orthorhombic lead zirconate
single crystals have yielded a comprehensive picture of temperature-dependent …