Tuning the electrocaloric effect by varying Sr concentration in ferroelectric Ba1-xSrxTiO3
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.055402
Abstract
The electrocaloric effect is investigated systematically in Ba1−xSrxTiO3 ferroelectrics using a semiclassical direct computational approach. The data are reported for the technologically important range of Sr concentrations of 0.0–0.6, electric fields up to 1000 kV/cm, and temperatures ranging from 5 to 600 K. A detailed comparison of computational data with experimental data from the literature reveals semiquantitative agreement and suggests the origin of discrepancies. The electrocaloric change in temperature ΔT shows strong dependence on Sr concentration which offers a way to tune electrocaloric response. In particular, the maximum electrocaloric ΔT is found to decrease with the increase in Sr concentration, whereas the location of the maximum shifts towards lower temperatures following the Curie point of the ferroelectric. Surprisingly, the width of the peak in the dependence of ΔT on the initial temperature is independent of the Sr concentration but shows a strong dependence on the applied electric field. Computational data are used to propose a compositionally graded ferroelectric Ba0.70Sr0.30TiO3/Ba0.55Sr0.45TiO3/Ba0.50Sr0.50TiO3/Ba0.45Sr0.55TiO3 whose ΔT shows almost no temperature dependence in the technologically important range of temperatures and electric fields. Such a desirable feature could potentially lead to the enhancement of relative cooling power.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Physical Review Materials, v. 2, issue 5, art. 055402
Scholar Commons Citation
Lisenkov, Sergey and Ponomareva, Inna, "Tuning the electrocaloric effect by varying Sr concentration in ferroelectric Ba1-xSrxTiO3" (2018). Physics Faculty Publications. 59.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phy_facpub/59
