Antiferroelectric material energy storage effect

Can antiferroelectric materials be used for energy storage?

Nature Communications 11, Article number: 3809 (2020) Cite this article Benefitting from the reversible phase transition between antiferroelectric and ferroelectric states, antiferroelectric materials have recently received widespread attentions for energy storage applications.

Are antiferroelectric films suitable for dielectric capacitors?

Antiferroelectric materials represented by PbZrO 3 (PZO) have excellent energy storage performance and are expected to be candidates for dielectric capacitors. It remains a challenge to further enhance the effective energy storage density and efficiency of PZO-based antiferroelectric films through domain engineering.

Are antiferroelectrics a promising material with high energy density?

Continued efforts are being devoted to find materials with high energy density, and antiferroelectrics (AFEs) are promising because of their characteristic polarization–electric field (P – E) double hysteresis loops schematized in Fig. 1a (ref. 4).

Is antiferroelectricity a resurgence in energy-efficient applications?

As a close relative of ferroelectricity, antiferroelectricity has received a recent resurgence of interest driven by technological aspirations in energy-efficient applications, such as energy storage capacitors, solid-state cooling devices, explosive energy conversion, and displacement transducers.

Will antiferroelectric energy storage and conversion devices become eco-friendly?

We expect that the realization of efficient and eco-friendly antiferroelectric energy storage and conversion devices will take place in the near future. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Do ferroelectric materials improve energy storage density?

Traditional ferroelectric (FE) materials have large residual polarization under external electric fields, which seriously hinders the improvement of energy storage density.