Ferroelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 7432
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanocrystals; nanogenerators; energy harvesting; ferroelectrics; photovoltaic devices
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Interests: oxide nanomaterials growth and characterization; piezoelectric nanostructures and nanodevices for mechanical energy harvesting; semiconductor nanomaterials and devices for solar energy harvesting and energy storage; nanoscale piezoelectric effect and piezotronics; piezocatalysis and interface between piezoelectricity and electrochemistry
Interests: energy harvesting; pyroelectricity; triboelectricity; piezoelectricity; thermoelectricity; power optimization; circuit designing
Special Issue Information
Ferroelectricity refers to a spontaneous polarization, induced by an asymmetric crystal structure, that occurs below the Curie temperature and can be switched using an external electric field. Ferroelectric materials have been studied with increasing intensity over the last few decades. They exhibit a wide spectrum of outstanding properties, including pyroelectricity, ferroelectric photovoltaicity, high nonlinear optical activity, ferroelasticity, and direct and inverse piezoelectricity. Due to this unique combination of different properties, ferroelectrics are attractive for many applications, including energy scavenging. Energy harvesting using ferroelectric materials is an interesting trend that may solve the problem of powering personal electronic devices without batteries.
We invite researchers, experimentalists, and theoreticians to contribute to this Special Issue. We encourage the submission of papers that present recent achievements in the fabrication and characterization of different types of energy-scavenging devices.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- pyroelectric nano/micro or bulk generators for waste heat recovery;
- triboelectric generators;
- piezoelectric generators for the harvesting of mechanical energy;
- converters of shock pressure into an electric field;
- photoferroelectric charge pumps;
- photovoltaic cells based on ferroelectric materials;
- hybrid devices based on piezo/tribo/pyroelectric and photovoltaic effects.
Dr. Krystian Mistewicz
Prof. Dr. Xudong Wang
Dr. Puneet Azad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nano/micro or bulk crystals
- nanogenerators
- energy harvesting
- pyroelectric effect
- piezoelectric effect
- photovoltaic devices
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