A novel multifunctional ceramic with photoluminescence and outstanding energy storage properties

Recently, the energy storage density of lead-free ceramics has been improved significantly, however, the single functional material can no longer satisfy the development trend of miniaturization and integration of electronic devices, thus developing multifunctional materials has become an urgent task. In this study, we fabricate a novel multifunctional ceramic with luminescence and energy storage properties, which can be denoted as (1-x) Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-xSr(0.7)Sm(0.2)TiO(3) ((1-x)BNT-xSST). The SST is doped into BNT can not only enhances the relaxor ferroelectric (RFE) phase by decreasing tolerance factor (t), but also introduces the luminescent properties due to the exist of Sm3+. Encouragingly, all ceramics exhibit strong red photoluminescence and long decay lifetime except BNT. Besides, the ceramic of 0.6BNT-0.4SST exhibits a high recoverable energy storage density (W-rec) of 3.52 J/cm(3) and a large power density (P-D) of 220 MW/cm(3) simultaneously, implying its large potential in optoelectronic devices application.

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A novel multifunctional ceramic with luminescence and energy storage properties has been successfully fabricated, showing great potential in optoelectronic device applications.