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 …

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 …

Despite more than 50 years of investigation, it is still unclear how the underlying structure of
relaxor ferroelectrics gives rise to their defining properties, such as ultrahigh piezoelectric …

Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) and its solid solutions with other ABO3 perovskites are of
great interest for lead-free ferroelectric and piezoelectric applications. In this article, we …

The stability of electrically induced long-range ferroelectric order in a relaxor 0.94 (Bi 1/2 Na
1/2) TiO 3-0.06 BaTiO 3 ceramic material has been investigated by temperature-dependent …

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 …

Recently, double perovskite-based oxide materials have been proposed for thermoelectric
(TE) applications due to their environment-friendly nature, high-temperature stability, better …

x)(0.8 Bi 1/2 Na 1/2 TiO 3-0.2 Bi 1/2 K 1/2 TiO 3)-xBi (Ni 2/3 Nb 1/3) O 3 (BNKT-xBNN) solid
solution ceramics were fabricated by high temperature solid-state reaction method. All the …

Electric conduction and dielectric relaxation behavior in (1—x)(Bi 0.5 Na 0.5 TiO 3-BaTiO 3)-
xNaNbO 3 ((1—x)(BNT–BT)–xNN) ceramics were investigated. All compositions showed …

For efficient solid-state refrigeration technologies based on electrocaloric effect (ECE), it is a
great challenge of simultaneously obtaining a large adiabatic temperature change (ΔT) …