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Effect of annealing atmosphere on the energy storage performance of antiferroelectric ceramics PLZT

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Antiferroelectric materials, which exhibit high saturation polarization intensity with small residual polarization intensity, are considered as the most promising dielectric energy storage materials. The energy storage properties of ceramics are known to be highly dependent on the annealing atmosphere employed in their preparation. In this study, we investigated the effect of annealing atmosphere on the energy storage properties of lead zirconate titanate (PLZT) ceramics prepared by the sol-gel method. Specifically, the ceramics were annealed in four different atmospheres: nitrogen, oxygen, vacuum and air. Our results showed that the samples annealed in oxygen and air exhibited significantly higher energy storage density and lower dielectric loss compared to those annealed in nitrogen and vacuum. With the objective of modulating the internal defect structure of ceramics by changing the atmosphere during annealing, we annealed the ceramics in \({\text {N}_2}\), \({\text {O}_2}\), and vacuum environments to obtain PLZT ceramics with different oxygen vacancy concentrations. We achieved an energy storage density of 2.32 J/cm\(^{3}\) and an energy storage efficiency of 47.8% under the electric field of 165 kV/cm. Our findings suggest that optimizing the annealing atmosphere can improve the energy storage performance of PLZT ceramics. This study provides valuable insight into the effect of annealing atmosphere on ceramic properties, which can aid in the development of high-performance energy storage materials.

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The present work has been supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission (KJZD-K20220150), the Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (cstc2021jcyj-msxmX0008, cstc2021jcyj-msxmX0039, cstc2021jcyj-msxmX0599), the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (cstc2020jcyj-zdxmX0008, cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0030), the special project of Chongqing technology innovation and application development (cstc2020jscx-msxmX0218), the Program for Creative Research Groups in University of Chongqing (Grant No. CXQT19031), the special project for technological innovation and application development of Chongqing Science and technology enterprises (cstc2021kqjscx - phxmX0008), and the Postgraduate Technology Innovation Project of Chongqing University of Science & Technology (YKJCX2220222, YKJCX2220224).

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Funding was provided by Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (Grant No. cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0071).

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    Yulin Zhang, Siqi Zhong, Guiyun Sun, Chen Chen, Yiwen Ding, Rongli Gao, Wei Cai & Chunlin Fu

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Zhang, Y., Zhong, S., Sun, G. et al. Effect of annealing atmosphere on the energy storage performance of antiferroelectric ceramics PLZT. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 35, 181 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-11943-8

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