High strain piezoelectric ceramics are the state-of-the-art materials for high precision,
positioning devices. A comprehensive review of the latest developments of the various types …

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 …

Electrocaloric cooling technologies, enabled by the discovery of the giant electrocaloric
effect in dielectrics more than a decade ago, represents a zero-global-warming-potential …

DOI: 10.1002/aenm. 201500361 up to 20-times larger cooling powers per mass compared to
gadolinium (Gd), a benchmark magnetocaloric material, with comparable coefficient-of …

High‐performance ferroelectric materials are widely used in various electronic devices
owing to the function of mutual conversion among different energies, which mainly relates to …

Ferroelectric (FE) and antiferroelectric (AFE) materials are used for several memory‐related
and energy‐related applications. Perovskite materials (eg, bulk ceramics) remain the most …

Ferroelectrics are promising candidate materials for electrocaloric refrigeration. Materials
with a large electrocaloric effect (ECE) near room temperature and a broad working …

The electrocaloric effect in lead-free BaTi 1− x Sn x O 3 (BTSn, x= 0.08, 0.105, and 0.14)
ferroelectric ceramics was studied by using an indirect method. It was found that the largest …

The electrocaloric effects (ECEs) of the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) composition
0.82 (Na 0.5 Bi 0.5) TiO 3-0.18 (K 0.5 Bi 0.5) TiO 3 (NBT-18KBT) are studied by direct …

A combination of large adiabatic temperature change (ΔT) and wide temperature span
(Tspan) in lead-free ceramics is highly desired to develop eco-friendly and highly efficient …