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 …

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 …

Giant piezoelectricity of Sm-doped Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 single crystals

F Li, MJ Cabral, B Xu, Z Cheng, EC Dickey, JM LeBeau… - Science, 2019 - science.org
High-performance piezoelectrics benefit transducers and sensors in a variety of
electromechanical applications. The materials with the highest piezoelectric charge …

Ultrahigh piezoelectricity in ferroelectric ceramics by design

F Li, D Lin, Z Chen, Z Cheng, J Wang, CC Li, Z Xu… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Piezoelectric materials, which respond mechanically to applied electric field and vice versa,
are essential for electromechanical transducers. Previous theoretical analyses have shown …

Ultrahigh performance in lead-free piezoceramics utilizing a relaxor slush polar state with multiphase coexistence

H Tao, H Wu, Y Liu, Y Zhang, J Wu, F Li… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Owing to growing environmental concerns, the development of lead-free piezoelectrics with
comparable performance to the benchmark Pb (Zr, Ti) O3 (PZT) becomes of great urgency …

Simultaneously achieving giant piezoelectricity and record coercive field enhancement in relaxor-based ferroelectric crystals

L Yang, H Huang, Z Xi, L Zheng, S Xu, G Tian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A large coercive field (EC) and ultrahigh piezoelectricity are essential for ferroelectrics used
in high-drive electromechanical applications. The discovery of relaxor-PbTiO3 crystals is a …

Heterostrain-enabled ultrahigh electrostrain in lead-free piezoelectric

W Feng, B Luo, S Bian, E Tian, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Piezoelectric materials provide high strain and large driving forces in actuators and can
transform electrical energy into mechanical energy. Although they were discovered over 100 …

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 …

The origin of ultrahigh piezoelectricity in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solution crystals

F Li, S Zhang, T Yang, Z Xu, N Zhang, G Liu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The discovery of ultrahigh piezoelectricity in relaxor-ferroelectric solid solution single
crystals is a breakthrough in ferroelectric materials. A key signature of relaxor-ferroelectric …

Atomic-resolution electron microscopy of nanoscale local structure in lead-based relaxor ferroelectrics

A Kumar, JN Baker, PC Bowes, MJ Cabral, S Zhang… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Relaxor ferroelectrics, which can exhibit exceptional electromechanical coupling, are some
of the most important functional materials, with applications ranging from ultrasound imaging …