Caloric materials near ferroic phase transitions

X Moya, S Kar-Narayan, ND Mathur - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
A magnetically, electrically or mechanically responsive material can undergo significant
thermal changes near a ferroic phase transition when its order parameter is modified by the …

Direct and indirect measurements on electrocaloric effect: Recent developments and perspectives

Y Liu, JF Scott, B Dkhil - Applied Physics Reviews, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
It has been ten years since the discovery of the giant electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric
materials showed that it is possible to employ this effect for substantial cooling applications …

Ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites for room-temperature electrocaloric refrigeration.

G Zhang, Q Li, H Gu, S Jiang, K Han… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2015 - europepmc.org
Solution-processable ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites are developed as a new form of
electrocaloric materials that can be effectively operated under both modest and high electric …

Next-generation electrocaloric and pyroelectric materials for solid-state electrothermal energy interconversion

SP Alpay, J Mantese, S Trolier-McKinstry, Q Zhang… - Mrs Bulletin, 2014 - cambridge.org
Thin-film electrocaloric and pyroelectric sources for electrothermal energy interconversion
have recently emerged as viable means for primary and auxiliary solid-state cooling and …

Caloric effects in perovskite oxides

A Barman, S Kar‐Narayan… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite oxides show an amazing diversity of electronic and magnetic properties along
with a myriad of structural variants and phase transitions. Large thermal changes may be …

Nanoconfinement‐induced giant electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric polymer nanowire array integrated with aluminum oxide membrane to exhibit record cooling …

G Zhang, L Weng, Z Hu, Y Liu, R Bao… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The electrocaloric effect (ECE) offers a unique mechanism to realize environmentally
friendly and highly efficient solid‐state cooling that completely differs from the conventional …

A 99.74% efficient capacitor-charging converter using partial power processing for electrocalorics

S Mönch, R Reiner, K Mansour… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work combines a 99.2% efficient gallium nitride (GaN)-based low-voltage fast-switching
half-bridge converter with an Si-based high-voltage slow-switching and almost lossless …

Ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites with complementary nanostructured fillers for electrocaloric cooling with high power density and great efficiency

G Zhang, B Fan, P Zhao, Z Hu, Y Liu, F Liu… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The exploration of electrocaloric cooling is of great importance to address the environmental
and energy-efficiency issues in the currently available refrigeration technologies. Although …

High fidelity direct measurement of local electrocaloric effect by scanning thermal microscopy

D Shan, K Pan, Y Liu, J Li - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrocaloric effect (ECE) has great potential in solid-state cooling. However, the lack of
reliable measurement method, especially at the local scale, hinders its materials …

[HTML][HTML] Some strategies for improving caloric responses with ferroelectrics

Y Liu, JF Scott, B Dkhil - APL Materials, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Many important breakthroughs and significant engineering developments have been
achieved during the past two decades in the field of caloric materials. In this review, we …