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A new family of high temperature stability and ultra-fast charge–discharge KNN-based lead-free ceramics

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Dielectric ceramic capacitors have been widely used in pulse-power technology because of their good performance of high power density and fast discharge speed. A series of lead-free relaxor ceramics (1-x)K0.5Na0.5NbO3-xLa(Mn0.5Ni0.5)O3 (KNN-xLMN) featuring with considerable charge–discharge behavior and energy storage properties were designed and prepared in this work. The grain size of ceramics decreases to 180 ± 20 nm, and the dispersion coefficient is > 1.6, both of which are beneficial to obtain slender P-E loops and improve the energy storage performance in K0.5Na0.5NbO3 ceramics upon La(Mn0.5Ni0.5)O3 do**. Consequently, acceptable dielectric properties (maximum permittivity εr of 1693, Δε/ε100 °C ≤  ± 15% from 33 °C to 309 °C, minimum dielectric loss tan δ of 0.028, 50 kHz) and a high recoverable energy storage density (Wrec ~ 1.65 J/cm3) accompanied by high energy storage efficiency (η ~ 76%) were obtained simultaneously in 0.97KNN-0.03LMN ceramics. Meanwhile, 0.97KNN-0.03LMN composition exhibited satisfactory charge–discharge performance (PD ~ 155 MW/cm3, t0.9 ~ 55 ns) and temperature stability (30 ~ 110 °C). This work not only proposes an efficient strategy to realize high energy storage and ultra-fast charge–discharge performance in lead-free KNN based ceramics, but also provide an candidate material for application of advanced pulsed power capacitors.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 51872177). The authors would also like to thank the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in the Shaanxi Province of China (Grant No. 2022JQ-338, 2021ZDLSF06-03, 2021JM-201), Science and Technology Project of **’an, China (Grant No. 2020KJRC0014) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Program No. GK202002014).

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  1. Key Laboratory for Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Advanced Energy Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, **’an, 710062, Shaanxi, China

    Zhanhui Peng, Qiangqiang Shi, Fudong Zhang, **nru Nie, Jitong Wang, Shudong Xu, Di Wu, Zupei Yang & **aolian Chao

  2. Shaanxi Coal Chemical Industry Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., **’an, 710065, China

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  3. Northwest Institute for Non-Ferrous Metal Research, **’an, 710065, China

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Peng, Z., Shi, Q., Zhang, F. et al. A new family of high temperature stability and ultra-fast charge–discharge KNN-based lead-free ceramics. J Mater Sci 57, 9992–10002 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07265-x

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