High recoverable energy density of Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-based ceramics by multi-scale insulation regulation and relaxor optimization strategy

Qiuyu Zheng; Bing Xie; Yahui Tian; Qi Wang; Huajie Luo; Zhiyong Liu; Haibo Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.jmat.2023.10.005

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High recoverable energy density of Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃-based ceramics by multi-scale insulation regulation and relaxor optimization strategy

Qiuyu Zheng^{^a}, Bing Xie^{^a^,}(

), Yahui Tian^{^b}, Qi Wang^{^a}, Huajie Luo^{^c^,}(

), Zhiyong Liu^{^a}, Haibo Zhang^{^d}

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 330063, China

School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi University of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330098, China

Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

Peer review under responsibility of The Chinese Ceramic Society.

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Abstract

Dielectric ceramic capacitors (DCCs) are highly desired for advanced electronic and electrical power systems owing to their ultrahigh power densities and fast charge-discharge speed. However, the low recoverable energy density (W_rec) of dielectric ceramic resulting from the low Weibull breakdown strength (E_b) has been a long-standing challenge. Here, we fabricated 0.8Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃–0.2Sm_1/3Sr_1/2(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃ (0.8NBT–0.2SSMN) relaxor ferroelectric (RFE) ceramics display a greatly improved E_b of 480 kV/cm and largely enhanced W_rec of 7.3 J/cm³, far outperforming pure NBT ceramic. We demonstrate that the proposed multi-scale insulation regulation strategy via introducing SSMN with optimal content can effectively reduce grain sizes, increase the bandgap, and create a highly insulating second phase, leading to a high E_b. Additionally, the introduction of Sm³⁺ and Mg²⁺–Nb⁵⁺ dopants on the A/B-sites of the Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃ lattice created disruptions in the long-range-ordered ferroelectric domains, leading to excellent RFE property. The high E_b and excellent RFE property led to the substantial improvement of W_rec. Else, an exceptional thermal stability of W_rec and efficiency (η) are obtained at 25–200 ℃ (W_rec ~ (1.77 ± 0.08) J/cm³, η ~ 82.9% ± 4.3%). This work offers a route for designing high energy storage performance relaxor ferroelectric ceramics for high-voltage dielectric ceramic capacitors.

Keywords

Thermal stability Relaxor ferroelectrics Energy storage performance Multi-scale insulation regulation

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Journal of Materiomics

Volume 10 Issue 4,
July 2024

Pages 845-856

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2023.10.005

Cite this article:

Zheng Q, Xie B, Tian Y, et al. High recoverable energy density of Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃-based ceramics by multi-scale insulation regulation and relaxor optimization strategy. Journal of Materiomics, 2024, 10(4): 845-856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2023.10.005

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Received: 11 September 2023

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