Tunable polarization-drived high energy storage performances in flexible PbZrO3 films by growing Al2O3 nanolayers

Chao Yin; Tiandong Zhang; Zhuangzhuang Shi; Bowen Zhang; Changhai Zhang; Qingguo Chi

doi:10.26599/JAC.2023.9220814

Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2023, 12(11): 2123-2133 https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220814

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Tunable polarization-drived high energy storage performances in flexible PbZrO₃ films by growing Al₂O₃ nanolayers

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Chao Yin^{^a^,^b}, Tiandong Zhang^{^a^,^b}(

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aKey Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

bSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

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energy storage, sol–gel, polarization, flexible, antiferroelectric

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Yin C, Zhang T, Shi Z, et al. Tunable polarization-drived high energy storage performances in flexible PbZrO₃ films by growing Al₂O₃ nanolayers. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2023, 12(11): 2123-2133. https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2023.9220814

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In recent years, PbZrO₃ (PZO) films have become favorable electric storage materials due to the unique electric field-induced phase transition behavior, but the severe hysteresis effect leads to low energy storage density and efficiency. In this work, inserting Al₂O₃ (AO) insulation nanolayers is proposed to tune the polarization behavior of flexible PZO films, anticipating optimization of energy storage performance. The results show that the thickness of the AO nanolayers has a deep influence on the polarization behavior of the PZO films, and PZO/AO/PZO (PAP) sandwiched films with 8 nm AO interlayer deliver relaxor ferroelectric-like polarization instead of antiferroelectric counterpart. To further utilize the AO nanolayers as top/bottom layers, the linear-like polarization and the highest breakdown strength are achieved in the AO/PZO/AO/PZO/AO (APAPA8) multilayer films, leading to both high discharged energy storage density of 35.2 J/cm³ and efficiency of 92.9%, as well as excellent fatigue and bending endurance, good temperatures, and frequency stability. The tunable polarization induced by growing the AO nanolayers makes antiferroelectric PZO films have great potential to be used as energy storage dielectrics.

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Tunable polarization-drived high energy storage performances in flexible PbZrO₃ films by growing Al₂O₃ nanolayers

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Chao Yin^{^a^,^b}, Tiandong Zhang^{^a^,^b}(

), Zhuangzhuang Shi^{^a^,^b}, Bowen Zhang^{^a^,^b}, Changhai Zhang^{^a^,^b}, Qingguo Chi^{^a^,^b}(

)

aKey Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

bSchool of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

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Keywords: energy storage, sol–gel, polarization, flexible, antiferroelectric

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Received: 24 July 2023

Revised: 09 September 2023

Accepted: 03 October 2023

Published: 21 November 2023

Issue date: November 2023

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U20A20308, 51977050, 52277024, and 52007042), Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. JQ2023E005), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. 2021T140166, 2018M640303), Heilongjiang Province Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. LBH-Z18099, LBH-Z20021), University Nursing Program for Young Scholars with Creative Talents in Heilongjiang Province (Nos. UNPYSCT-2020178, UNPYSCT-2020180), and the Fundamental Research for Universities of Heilongjiang Province (Nos. 2019-KYYWF-0208, 2018-KYYWF-1625).

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