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Relaxor ferroelectric (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-based ceramic with remarkable comprehensive energy storage performance under low electric field for capacitor applications

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Although high-applied electric field can usually generate high energy storage performance (ESP) for most dielectric materials, the presence of high risk at high electric field and large cost of insulation technology are the main obstacles that critically restrict the actual applications of dielectric ceramics in the energy storage area. Herein, simultaneously realizing high energy storage density (Wrec)/efficiency (η) and charge–discharge performance under low working electric fields is proposed in relaxor ferroelectrics via combining the non-ergodic and ergodic relaxor state (NR-ER) and dominated ER features. Based on this idea, a high Wrec (2.03 J/cm3) and favorable η (72%), together with excellent frequency dependence (0.5–100 Hz), moderate temperature stability (20–140 °C, and satisfactory fatigue endurance (100–105 cycles), can be simultaneously achieved in 0.3[0.955(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3–0.045Ba(Al0.5Ta0.5)O3]–0.7Sr0.3(Bi0.7Na0.67Li0.03)0.5TiO3 (BNT–BAT–0.7SBNLT) ceramic at a low electric field of 200 kV/cm. Moreover, the indicated ceramics also possess great charge–discharge performance at 140 kV/cm, featured by a large power density PD of 46.2 MW/cm3, discharge energy density Wd of 0.62 J/cm3, fast charge-discharge rate t0.9 of 210 ns, and excellent cycling reliability. Thus, the designed BNT–BAT–0.7SBNLT ceramic possesses superior comprehensive ESP under low electric field, which has broad prospects in practical high-power ceramic capacitors applications.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LY20E020008, LQ16E020004), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51802063, 51502067).

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Liu, J., Ding, Y., Li, C. et al. Relaxor ferroelectric (Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-based ceramic with remarkable comprehensive energy storage performance under low electric field for capacitor applications. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 21164–21177 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-06615-w

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