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Tao Deng1,2,3, Jiyang Xie4, Zhen Liu5,6
1Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
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As promising candidates for next-generation energy storage devices in electrical and electronic systems, lead-free multilayer ceramic capacitors face increasingly high performance requirements. To counteract the usual trade-off between energy storage density and efficiency, we here propose a high-entropy design that directly harnesses diverse oxide symmetries to targetedly engineer competing orders and tune the composition into the crossover region between relaxor ferroelectric and superparaelectric states. Atomic-scale structural analysis reveals high-entropy ceramic develops pronounced local polarization fluctuation and dispersed oxygen octahedral rotations, which enhance relaxor behavior and reduce switching barrier. Consequently, superior recoverable energy density of 20.64 J cm-3 and high efficiency of 94.2% are obtained in our designed high-entropy Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based multilayer ceramic capacitors, along with excellent thermal/anti-fatigue stability and charge-discharge capabilities. This work provides a transferable strategy to engineer competing orders in lead-free dielectric materials and successfully achieves high-entropy multilayer ceramic capacitors with superior energy storage performance.
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