Yu Qiu , Jiangbo Cao , Jiaze Wang , Rong Ma , Yating Yu , Xiaoting Zhang
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Abstract
Due to their rapid charge-discharge rates and high power density, dielectric ceramic materials exhibit significant application potential in pulsed power electronic systems. However, the inevitable compositional deviations and defect formation in ceramics during high-temperature sintering hinder further enhancement of their energy storage properties. In this paper, sintering atmosphere modulated defect engineering was adopted in Na0.4K0.1Bi0.5TiO3-based relaxor ceramics, so as to manipulate the defect form and their content toward temperature-stable energy storage. Results have verified that, defects engineering including oxygen vacancies and defect dipole could distinctly improve the breakdown strength and reduce the hysteresis loss, and modify the polarization switching behavior via the strengthened nanodomain induced relaxor feature. Ceramics sintered in a pure oxygen atmosphere achieve high Wrec of 3.66 J/cm³ and η of 91.7 %, along with wide dielectric temperature stability within 30–411 °C. This work provides an effective strategy to develop outstanding dielectric ceramics both in energy storage and temperature stability via defect engineering.
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Materials Research Bulletin is an international journal reporting high-impact research on processing-structure-property relationships in functional materials and nanomaterials with interesting electronic, magnetic, optical, thermal, mechanical or catalytic properties. Papers purely on thermodynamics or theoretical calculations (e.g., density functional theory) do not fall within the scope of the journal unless they also demonstrate a clear link to physical properties. Topics covered include functional materials (e.g., dielectrics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, relaxors, thermoelectrics, etc.); electrochemistry and solid-state ionics (e.g., photovoltaics, batteries, sensors, and fuel cells); nanomaterials, graphene, and nanocomposites; luminescence and photocatalysis; crystal-structure and defect-structure analysis; novel electronics; non-crystalline solids; flexible electronics; protein-material interactions; and polymeric ion-exchange membranes.