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 …

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 …

Lead‐free relaxor ferroelectrics

VV Shvartsman, DC Lupascu - Journal of the American …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Feature size is a natural determinant of material properties. Its design offers the
technological perspectives for material improvement. Grain size, crystallite size, domain …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Dielectric Phenomena in Polymers and Multilayered Dielectric Films

E Baer, L Zhu - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
High dielectric constant and low dielectric loss are desirable electrical properties for next-
generation polymer dielectrics that show promise for applications in pulsed power, power …

Recent progress in relaxor ferroelectrics with perovskite structure

AA Bokov, ZG Ye - Journal of materials science, 2006 - Springer
Relaxor ferroelectrics were discovered almost 50 years ago among the complex oxides with
perovskite structure. In recent years this field of research has experienced a revival of …

Ferroelectric to relaxor crossover and dielectric phase diagram in the BaTiO3–BaSnO3 system

C Lei, AA Bokov, ZG Ye - Journal of applied physics, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The (1− x) Ba Ti O 3–x Ba Sn O 3 (0⩽ x⩽ 0.30) perovskite solid solution ceramics were
prepared by solid state reaction and studied by dielectric spectroscopy. The complex …

A transmission electron microscopy study of the A-site disordered perovskite Na0. 5Bi0. 5TiO3

V Dorcet, G Trolliard - Acta Materialia, 2008 - Elsevier
A transmission electron microscopy study of Na0. 5Bi0. 5TiO3 (NBT) crystals shows two
types of ferroelectric domains characterized by interface boundaries lying in the {110} C and …

Large (anti) ferrodistortive NaNbO3-based lead-free relaxors: Polar nanoregions embedded in ordered oxygen octahedral tilt matrix

H Qi, W Li, L Wang, L Chen, H Liu, S Deng, J Chen - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Relaxor ferroelectric perovskites have experienced a revival of interest in recent years
accompanying the deeply exploration of the fine local structure of polar nanoregions, which …

Giant dynamic electromechanical response via field driven pseudo-ergodicity in nonergodic relaxors

H Qi, T Hu, S Deng, H Liu, Z Fu, J Chen - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Enhanced electromechanical response can commonly be found during the crossover from
normal to relaxor ferroelectric state, making relaxors to be potential candidates for actuators …

Electric-field–temperature phase diagram of the ferroelectric relaxor system (1− x) Bi1/2Na1/2TiO3− xBaTiO3 doped with manganese

E Sapper, N Novak, W Jo, T Granzow… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The electric-field–temperature phase diagram for the lead-free relaxor material (1− x)(Bi 1/2
Na 1/2) TiO 3− xBaTiO 3 (x= 0.03, 0.06, and 0.09) doped with 0.5 mol% Mn (BNT-100xBT …