Explicating the irreversible electric-field-assisted ferroelectric phase transition in the otherwise antiferroelectric sodium niobate for energy storage systems
Kwangrae Kim, Woohyun Hwang, Ji‐Hwan Lee, Aloysius Soon
Abstract
By means of a first-principles-based Landau–Devonshire model, we predict and explain why newly discovered intermediates can rationalize the persistent lack of a double polarization–electric field hysteresis for NaNbO 3 under an applied field.
Topics & Concepts
AntiferroelectricityFerroelectricityMaterials scienceElectric fieldCondensed matter physicsPolarization (electrochemistry)Phase transitionHysteresisField (mathematics)OptoelectronicsDielectricPhysicsPhysical chemistryQuantum mechanicsChemistryPure mathematicsMathematicsFerroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsPhotorefractive and Nonlinear Optics