Interlayer Coupling Enhanced Energy Storage Performance in a Flexible BMT-BTO/BMT Multilayer Ferroelectric Film Capacitor.

Flexible ferroelectric capacitors with high energy density and storage efficiency are highly desirable in the next generation of flexible electronic devices. To develop high-performance ferroelectric capacitors, a conventional approach is chemical modification. Here, a novel approach of interlayer coupling is proposed to achieve high energy storage performance in BiMg 0.5 Ti 0.5 O 3 -BaTiO 3 /BiMg 0.5 Ti 0.5 O 3 (BMT-BTO/BMT) N multilayer ferroelectric films fabricated on flexible mica substrates via a sol-gel coating method. The interlayer electrostatic coupling between the ferroelectric BMT and relaxor ferroelectric BMT-BTO layers leads to small remnant polarization and large breakdown field strength, resulting in an outstanding energy storage density of ∼106.8 J cm -3 and a good efficiency of ∼75.6% in the multilayer thin films. Further, the energy storage performance remains stable in a wide range of temperatures (25-200 °C) and frequencies (500 Hz to 10 kHz) after 10 8 electrical loading cycles. The energy storage performance also has no obvious deterioration when the multilayer film experiences 10 4 mechanical bending cycles with a bending radius of 4 mm. The approach proposed in the present work should be generally implementable in other multilayer flexible ferroelectric capacitors and offers a novel avenue to enhance energy storage performance by tuning the interlayer coupling.