scholarly journals Electrocaloric Effect and Phase Transitions in Ferroelectrics

Author(s):  
Dandan Li ◽  
Sheng-Guo Lu
Author(s):  
T. M. Correia ◽  
Q. Zhang

Full-perovskite Pb 0.87 Ba 0.1 La 0.02 (Zr 0.6 Sn 0.33 Ti 0.07 )O 3 (PBLZST) thin films were fabricated by a sol–gel method. These revealed both rhombohedral and tetragonal phases, as opposed to the full-tetragonal phase previously reported in ceramics. The fractions of tetragonal and rhombohedral phases are found to be strongly dependent on film thickness. The fraction of tetragonal grains increases with increasing film thickness, as the substrate constraint throughout the film decreases with film thickness. The maximum of the dielectric constant ( ε m ) and the corresponding temperature ( T m ) are thickness-dependent and dictated by the fraction of rhombohedral and tetragonal phase, with ε m reaching a minimum at 400 nm and T m shifting to higher temperature with increasing thickness. With the thickness increase, the breakdown field decreases, but field-induced antiferroelectric–ferroelectric ( E AFE−FE ) and ferroelectric–antiferroelectric ( E FE−AFE ) switch fields increase. The electrocaloric effect increases with increasing film thickness. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Taking the temperature of phase transitions in cool materials’.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 6430-6438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zouhair Hanani ◽  
Daoud Mezzane ◽  
M’barek Amjoud ◽  
Anna G. Razumnaya ◽  
Sébastien Fourcade ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 255 (2) ◽  
pp. 1700308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhura Marathe ◽  
Claude Ederer ◽  
Anna Grünebohm

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (18) ◽  
pp. 16300-16305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian-Fu Zhang ◽  
Xin-Gui Tang ◽  
Peng-Zu Ge ◽  
Qiu-Xiang Liu ◽  
Yan-Ping Jiang

Author(s):  
Qihan Peng ◽  
Kumara Raja Kandula ◽  
Zhongqiu Xia ◽  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Yujing Zhang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1128
Author(s):  
А.В. Карташев ◽  
В.С. Бондарев ◽  
И.Н. Флёров ◽  
М.В. Горев ◽  
Е.И. Погорельцев ◽  
...  

AbstractThe specific heat, thermal expansion, permittivity, and electrocaloric effect in bulk of BaTiO_3 (BT) samples in the form of nano- (nBT-500 nm) and micro- (mBT-1200 nm) ceramics fabricated using spark plasma sintering and solid-state plasma techniques have been investigated. The size effect has been reflected, to a great extent, in the suppression of the specific heat and thermal expansion anomalies and in the changes in the temperatures and entropies of phase transitions and permittivity, and a decrease in the maximum intensive electrocaloric effect: $$\Delta T_{{{\text{AD}}}}^{{\max }}$$ = 29 mK ( E = 2.0 kV/cm) for nBT and $$\Delta T_{{{\text{AD}}}}^{{\max }}$$ = 70 mK ( E = 2.5 kV/cm) for mBT. The conductivity growth at temperatures above 360 K leads to the significant irreversible heating of the samples due to the Joule heat release in the applied electric field, which dominates over the electrocaloric effect.


Author(s):  
Marija Dunce ◽  
Eriks Birks ◽  
Jani Perantie ◽  
Juha Hagberg ◽  
Maija Antonova ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (44) ◽  
pp. 25526-25536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunlin Zhao ◽  
Junlin Yang ◽  
Yanli Huang ◽  
Xihong Hao ◽  
Jiagang Wu

We achieved a large electrocaloric effect over a broad temperature span in lead-free ceramics utilizing successive and metastable phase transitions.


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