Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
Volume 101, Issue 12, Pages 5487-5496Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jace.15803
Keywords
dielectric breakdown; energy storage density; grain-size effect; nanostructure
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB654604]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51672148]
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A series of ferroelectric ceramic models with grain and grain-boundary structures of different sizes are established via Voronoi tessellations. A phase-field model is introduced to study the dielectric breakdown strength of these ferroelectric ceramics. Afterward, the relation between the electric displacement and electric field and the hysteresis loop are calculated using a finite element method based on a classical and modified hyperbolic tangent model. The results indicate that as the grain size decreases, the dielectric strength is enhanced, but the dielectric permittivity is reduced. The discharge energy density and energy storage efficiency of these ferroelectric ceramics extracted from the as-calculated hysteresis both increase along with a decrease in their grain size at their breakdown points. However, under the same applied electric field, the ferroelectric ceramic with a smaller grain size possesses a lower discharge energy density but a higher energy storage efficiency. The results suggest that ferroelectric ceramics with smaller grain sizes possess advantages for applications in energy storage devices.
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