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Enhanced electrocaloric effect in lead-free NBT-based ceramics

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Improvement of the electrocaloric (EC) effect was investigated in the lead-free (Na,Bi)TiO3 (NBT)-based ferroelectric ceramics fabricated by a Sol-Gel flame synthetic approach. It is found that the NBT-based samples with the compositions located at the morphotropic phase boundary exhibit superior EC entropy change (ΔS) and temperature change (ΔT). The highest ΔS of 2.20 J kg-1 K-1, ΔT of 1.50 K and the EC coefficient (ΔT/ΔE) of 0.030 K cm kV-1 are obtained in the 0.94NBT-0.06BaTiO3 ceramic. The ΔT/ΔE value of the 0.94NBT-0.06BaTiO3 ceramic is significantly higher than that of lead-free ferroelectric materials reported so far and is comparable to the values of the lead-containing materials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9273-9278
Number of pages6
JournalCeramics International
Volume40
Issue number7 PART A
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Keywords

  • C. Ferroelectric properties
  • Electrocaloric effect
  • NBT-based ceramics
  • Sol-Gel flame synthetic

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