High‐Strain Lead‐free Antiferroelectric Electrostrictors

Abstract

Research on lead-free piezoceramics has dramatically increased over the last years due to stringent legislation demanding to phase out current lead-containing piezoceramics. The use of electrostrictive materials for electric-field induced strain has been largely overlooked. In this paper we demonstrate that electrostrictive materials around a ferroelectric–antiferroelectric transition are capable of providing high strains over a wide temperature regime that was not accessible before. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.