Realizing excellent energy storage performances in tetragonal tungsten bronze ceramics via a B-site engineering strategy

Abstract

The development of dielectric energy storage capacitors has attracted much research interest in recent years. As an important category of dielectric materials, the energy storage potential of the tetragonal tungsten bronze structure ceramic has been underestimated for a long time due to the lower dielectric constant and low breakdown strength. In this work, a series of Sr0.6Ba0.4Nb2O6-based tungsten bronze ceramics with excellent energy storage performances was prepared based on a B-site engineering strategy. Enhanced relaxor behavior and improved breakdown strength induced by Ta substitution give rise to a high recoverable energy density of 3.95 J/cm3 along with superior efficiency of 93.4 %. Especially, the capacitor based on the Ta-modified Sr0.6Ba0.4Nb2O6 ceramics exhibits a large current density of 845 A /cm2 and a huge power density of 84.5 MW/cm3 accompanied by a fast discharge time of 75 ns. All these results demonstrate the immense potential of the Ta-modified Sr0.6Ba0.4Nb2O6-based tetragonal tungsten bronze ceramics in the high-power energy storage capacitor field.