Award Number: DE-EE0009105, CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15, Advanced Manufacturing Office, Location(s): IA, Office(s): Golden Field Office
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May 7, 2020
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Award Number: DE-EE0009105
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Location(s): IA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) to develop methodologies for rapid screening of anti-ferroelectric (AFE) ceramic compounds for use as dielectric insulators in capacitors. AFE’s have the potential to increase the energy efficiency of energy storage applications. Rapid screening of AFE’s would enable accelerated material design of the compounds, to in turn, improve the material characteristics of AFE’s. As part of the project, ISU would synthesis AFE powders and apply high-throughput screening (HTS) and machine learning techniques to screen potential compounds and downselect materials with the targeted characteristics of interest (e.g. near zero hysteresis, high charge/discharge efficiency, and improved cyclability). Laboratory-scale AFE capacitors (10mm diameter x 0.5mm height) would be fabricated from the materials and used for physical characterization and performance testing.