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Finkel P, Cain MG, Mion T, Staruch M, Kolacz J, Mantri S, Newkirk C, Kavetsky K, Thornton J, Xia J, Currie M, Hase T, Moser A, Thompson P, Lucas CA, Fitch A, Cairney JM, Moss SD, Nisbet AGA, Daniels JE, Lofland SE. Simultaneous Large Optical and Piezoelectric Effects Induced by Domain Reconfiguration Related to Ferroelectric Phase Transitions. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2106827. [PMID: 34773926 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2021] [Revised: 10/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Electrical switching of ferroelectric domains and subsequent domain wall motion promotes strong piezoelectric activity, however, light scatters at refractive index discontinuities such as those found at domain wall boundaries. Thus, simultaneously achieving large piezoelectric effect and high optical transmissivity is generally deemed infeasible. Here, it is demonstrated that the ferroelectric domains in perovskite Pb(In1/2 Nb1/2 )O3 -Pb(Mg1/3 Nb2/3 )O3 -PbTiO3 domain-engineered crystals can be manipulated by electrical field and mechanical stress to reversibly and repeatably, with small hysteresis, transform the opaque polydomain structure into a highly transparent monodomain state. This control of optical properties can be achieved at very low electric fields (less than 1.5 kV cm-1 ) and is accompanied by a large (>10 000 pm V-1 ) piezoelectric coefficient that is superior to linear state-of-the-art materials by a factor of three or more. The coexistence of tunable optical transmissivity and high piezoelectricity paves the way for a new class of photonic devices.
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Affiliation(s)
- Peter Finkel
- US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 02375, USA
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- US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 02375, USA
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- US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 02375, USA
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- US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 02375, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales Sydney, Union Rd, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Department of Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 08028-1701, USA
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- Department of Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 08028-1701, USA
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- Defence Science and Technology Group, Aerospace Division, Fishermans Bend, VIC, 3207, Australia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 02375, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Conventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 02375, USA
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- Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
- XMaS Beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, F-38043, France
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- Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
- XMaS Beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, F-38043, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS40220, Grenoble Cedex 9, 38043, France
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Defence Science and Technology Group, Aerospace Division, Fishermans Bend, VIC, 3207, Australia
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales Sydney, Union Rd, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Department of Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 08028-1701, USA
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Hou H, Finkel P, Staruch M, Cui J, Takeuchi I. Ultra-low-field magneto-elastocaloric cooling in a multiferroic composite device. Nat Commun 2018; 9:4075. [PMID: 30287833 PMCID: PMC6172219 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06626-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
The advent of caloric materials for magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, and elastocaloric cooling is changing the landscape of solid state cooling technologies with potentials for high-efficiency and environmentally friendly residential and commercial cooling and heat-pumping applications. Given that caloric materials are ferroic materials that undergo first (or second) order phase transitions near room temperature, they open up intriguing possibilities for multiferroic devices with hitherto unexplored functionalities coupling their thermal properties with different fields (magnetic, electric, and stress) through composite configurations. Here we demonstrate a magneto-elastocaloric effect with ultra-low magnetic field (0.16 T) in a compact geometry to generate a cooling temperature change as large as 4 K using a magnetostriction/superelastic alloy composite. Such composite systems can be used to circumvent shortcomings of existing technologies such as the need for high-stress actuation mechanism for elastocaloric materials and the high magnetic field requirement of magnetocaloric materials, while enabling new applications such as compact remote cooling devices. The broad use of elastocaloric materials in cooling applications is hindered by the need to exert large forces onto the material. Compressing a magnetostrictive-elastocaloric composite using a low magnetic field of 0.16 T, temperature changes up to 4 K are achieved without applying external forces.
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- Huilong Hou
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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- Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA, 50011, USA.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
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