Nature Communications (Aug 2021)
Manipulating electron redistribution to achieve electronic pyroelectricity in molecular [FeCo] crystals
- Pritam Sadhukhan,
- Shu-Qi Wu,
- Jeremy Ian Long,
- Takumi Nakanishi,
- Shinji Kanegawa,
- Kaige Gao,
- Kaoru Yamamoto,
- Hajime Okajima,
- Akira Sakamoto,
- Michael L. Baker,
- Thomas Kroll,
- Dimosthenis Sokaras,
- Atsushi Okazawa,
- Norimichi Kojima,
- Yoshihito Shiota,
- Kazunari Yoshizawa,
- Osamu Sato
Affiliations
- Pritam Sadhukhan
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- Shu-Qi Wu
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- Jeremy Ian Long
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- Takumi Nakanishi
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- Shinji Kanegawa
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- Kaige Gao
- College of Physical Science and Technology, Yangzhou University
- Kaoru Yamamoto
- Department of Applied Physics, Okayama University of Science
- Hajime Okajima
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University
- Akira Sakamoto
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University
- Michael L. Baker
- The Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester
- Thomas Kroll
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
- Dimosthenis Sokaras
- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
- Atsushi Okazawa
- Division of Chemistry, Institution of Liberal Education, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi Kamimachi, Itabashi-ku
- Norimichi Kojima
- Department of Basic Science, Graduation School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku
- Yoshihito Shiota
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- Kazunari Yoshizawa
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- Osamu Sato
- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering & IRCCS, Kyushu University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25041-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Pyroelectric materials exhibiting large and nearly constant pyroelectric coefficients over a wide temperature range are highly desirable. Here, the authors develop molecular [FeCo] crystals with continuous pyroelectricity, originating from a transition between three distinct electronic structures.