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 …

Electrocaloric materials for future solid-state refrigeration technologies

M Valant - Progress in Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
The electrocaloric (EC) effect is an adiabatic and reversible temperature change that occurs
in a polar material upon application of an electric field. The current intensive research in EC …

Large electrocaloric response and high energy-storage properties over a broad temperature range in lead-free NBT-ST ceramics

WP Cao, WL Li, XF Dai, TD Zhang, J Sheng… - Journal of the European …, 2016 - Elsevier
The improvement of the electrocaloric effect (ECE) in (1− x)(Na 0.5 Bi 0.5) TiO 3− x SrTiO3
(NBT-ST) lead-free relaxor ferroelectric ceramics was determined by indirect measurements …

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 …

A Giant Electrocaloric Effect in Nanoscale Antiferroelectric and Ferroelectric Phases Coexisting in a Relaxor Pb0.8Ba0.2ZrO3 Thin Film at Room Temperature

B Peng, H Fan, Q Zhang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, large electrocaloric effects (ECE) in antiferroelectric sol‐gel PbZr0. 95Ti0. 05O3
thin films and in ferroelectric polymer P (VDF‐TrFE) 55/45 thin films were observed near the …

[HTML][HTML] Giant room temperature electrocaloric effect in a layered hybrid perovskite ferroelectric: [(CH3)2CHCH2NH3]2PbCl4

X Liu, Z Wu, T Guan, H Jiang, P Long, X Li, C Ji… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrocaloric effect driven by electric fields displays great potential in realizing highly
efficient solid-state refrigeration. Nevertheless, most known electrocaloric materials exhibit …

Pyroelectric and electrocaloric materials

X Li, SG Lu, XZ Chen, H Gu, X Qian… - Journal of Materials …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Both the pyroelectric and electrocaloric effects originate from the cross-coupling between
polarization and temperature in insulating dielectrics. Although both effects have been …

Abnormal electrocaloric effect of Na0. 5Bi0. 5TiO3–BaTiO3 lead-free ferroelectric ceramics above room temperature

Y Bai, GP Zheng, SQ Shi - Materials Research Bulletin, 2011 - Elsevier
We demonstrate the electrocaloric effect (ECE) of Na0. 5Bi0. 5TiO3–BaTiO3 (NBT–BT) lead-
free ferroelectric ceramics, which were fabricated by the solid-state reaction method. Based …

Direct and indirect electrocaloric measurements on< 001>-PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-30PbTiO3 single crystals

FL Goupil, A Berenov, AK Axelsson, M Valant… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
A direct electrocaloric effect (ECE) measurement system, based on a modified-differential
scanning calorimeter (DSC), allowing the acquisition of both thermal (ECE, heat capacity) …

Lead-free Ba0. 8Ca0. 2 (ZrxTi1− x) O3 ceramics with large electrocaloric effect

B Asbani, JL Dellis, A Lahmar, M Courty… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The electrocaloric effect was investigated in lead-free Zr doped Ba 0.8 Ca 0.2 (Zr x Ti 1− x) O
3 (BCTZ) ceramics synthesized by a conventional sintering process. Room-temperature x …