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Electrocaloric Materials

New Generation of Coolers

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Tatiana Correia

    1. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom

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  2. Qi Zhang

    1. Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom

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  • First book on this subject
  • Introduces a new generation of materials
  • Written and edited by pioneers in the field

Part of the book series: Engineering Materials (ENG.MAT., volume 34)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Electrocaloric Effect: An Introduction

    • Tatiana Correia, Qi Zhang
    Pages 1-15

  3. Constitutive Modeling of Electrothermal Properties in Polar Dielectric Materials and Thin Films

    • Jialan Zhang, S. Pamir Alpay, George A. Rossetti Jr.
    Pages 17-45

  4. Electrocaloric Effect in Relaxor Ferroelectric-Based Materials

    • Jani Peräntie, Tatiana Correia, Juha Hagberg, Antti Uusimäki
    Pages 47-89

  5. Electrocaloric Multilayer Capacitors

    • S. Kar-Narayan, S. Crossley, N. D. Mathur
    Pages 91-105

  6. Electrocaloric Polymers

    • Xinyu Li, Sheng-Guo Lu, Xiaoshi Qian, Minren Lin, Q. M. Zhang
    Pages 107-124

  7. Lead-Free and “Exotic” Electrocaloric Materials

    • Anna-Karin Axelsson, Matjaz Valant, Florian le Goupil, Andrey Berenov, Neil Alford
    Pages 125-146

  8. Indirect and Direct Measurements of the Electrocaloric Effect

    • Zdravko Kutnjak, Brigita Rožič
    Pages 147-182

  9. New Approaches to Electrocaloric-Based Multilayer Cooling

    • Sergey Karmanenko, Alexander Semenov, Antonina Dedyk, Andrey Es’kov, Alexey Ivanov, Pavel Beliavskiy et al.
    Pages 183-223

  10. Energy Harvesting from Temperature: Use of Pyroelectric and Electrocaloric Properties

    • Gaël Sebald, Sébastien Pruvost, Daniel Guyomar
    Pages 225-249

  11. Future Trends in Electrocalorics Materials

    • N. D. Mathur
    Pages 251-253
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Since the 1997 Kyoto protocol of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the development of novel refrigerators has been a priority within the scientific community. Although magnetocaloric materials are promising candidates, they still need a large magnetic field to induce a giant ΔT as well as powerful and costly magnets. However, in electrocaloric materials (ECMs) a temperature change may be achieved by applying or removing an electric field. Since a giant electrocaloric effect on ferroelectric thin films was reported in Science in 2006, researchers have been inspired to explore such effect in different ferroelectric thin films. This book reviews electrocaloric effects observed in bulk materials as well as recent promising advances in thin films, with special emphasis on the ferroelectric, antiferroelectric and relaxor nature of ECMs. It reports a number of considerations about the future of ECMs as a means of achieving an efficient, ecologically sustainable and low cost refrigerator.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom

    Tatiana Correia

  • Microsystems and Nanotechnology Centre, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom

    Qi Zhang

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