Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

Magnetically driven thermal changes in magnetocaloric materials have, for several decades,
been exploited to pump heat near room temperature. By contrast, their electrocaloric and …

Heat pumps based on magnetocaloric and electrocaloric working bodies—in which entropic
phase transitions are driven by changes of magnetic and electric field, respectively—use …

Coming up with sustainable sources of electricity is one of the grand challenges of this
century. The research field of materials for energy harvesting stems from this motivation …

Since the discovery of giant electrocaloric effects, researchers are intensively studying
electrocaloric cooling as an alternative to vapor compression systems to develop more …

Electrocaloric materials are promising working bodies for caloric-based technologies,
suggested as an efficient alternative to the vapor compression systems. However, their …

We have studied the electrocaloric response of the archetypal antiferroelectric PbZr O 3 as a
function of voltage and temperature in the vicinity of its antiferroelectric-paraelectric phase …

Efficiency improvements in heat pump can drastically reduce global energy demand. Caloric
heat pumps are currently being investigated as a potentially more efficient alternative to …

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 …

Electrocaloric materials in the shape of multilayer capacitors are excellent working bodies to
build cooling devices as they can exhibit large changes in temperature triggered by changes …