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Improved Energy Storage Properties Accompanied by Enhanced Interface Polarization in Annealed Microwave-Sintered BST

  • Zhe Song
  • , Shujun Zhang
  • , Hanxing Liu
  • , Hua Hao
  • , Minghe Cao
  • , Qi Li
  • , Qing Wang
  • , Zhonghua Yao
  • , Zhijian Wang
  • , Michael T Lanagan

Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review

Abstract

Microwave-sintering (MWS) technique was employed to fabricate dense (Ba0.4Sr0.6)TiO3 (BST) ceramics. With respect to the high dielectric loss at room temperature, induced by the formation of oxygen defects during the MWS under vacuum atmosphere (-60 kPa), the as-sintered samples were thermally annealed in air to reduce tanδ and recover the insulating performance. Accompanied by the decreased tanδ, the energy storage properties for annealed MWS BST were optimized, with increasing energy density (γ) from 0.77 to 1.15 J/cm3 and energy efficiency (η) from 60% to 82%. The lower oxygen vacancy concentrations were believed to account for the enhanced insulating characteristics of grain boundaries and contribute to the improved properties after annealing. Electrical characterization of grain and grain boundary by impedance spectroscopy demonstrated that the annealing preferentially modified the grain boundary. In addition, resistances extracted from the high temperature impedance analysis were found to be inadequate for evaluating the electrical characteristics of materials affected by extrinsic mechanisms, such as the interfacial polarization. For comparison, annealing effect on energy storage properties were also discussed for conventionally sintered BST. © 2015 The American Ceramic Society.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3212-3222
JournalJournal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume98
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2015
Externally publishedYes

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Funding

This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (no.51372191), International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China (2011DFA52680) and the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (no. 2015CB654601).

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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