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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 118, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0043050
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- Hessian State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts under the LOEWE collaborative project FLAME (Fermi level engineering of antiferroelectric materials for energy storage and insulation systems)
- Slovenian research agency [P1-0125]
- DAAD through Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) [57570962]
- Slovenian Research Agency
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The study investigates the electric field-induced phase transition in lead-free antiferroelectric materials, revealing a separation between the structural antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition and polarization switching process, which is attributed to the presence of randomly oriented grains and mechanical stress at the phase boundary.
Antiferroelectric materials exhibit electric field-induced phase transitions between antiferroelectric and ferroelectric states, which enable their use in energy storage and other applications. However, the mechanisms of these transitions are insufficiently understood. Here, we considered the electric field-induced phase transition in the lead-free antiferroelectric NaNbO3. Macroscopic measurements of polarization and longitudinal, transverse, and volumetric strain were complemented with simultaneous structural investigations using high-energy x-ray radiation, yielding crystallographic strain and unit cell volume changes. The field-induced behavior can be divided into the structural antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition at about 8kV/mm and the clearly decoupled polarization switching process at about 12kV/mm, which is associated with a large increase in polarization and strain. Decoupling of the field-induced phase transition and polarization switching is related to the randomly oriented grains and mechanical stress present at the phase boundary.
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