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100 1 _aCorreia, Tatiana.
_eeditor.
245 1 0 _aElectrocaloric Materials
_h[electronic resource] :
_bNew Generation of Coolers /
_cedited by Tatiana Correia, Qi Zhang.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aVIII, 253 p. 141 illus., 36 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aEngineering Materials,
_x1612-1317 ;
_v34
505 0 _aElectrocaloric effect: An Introduction -- Constitutive Modeling of Electrothermal Properties in Polar Dielectric Materials and Thin Films -- Electrocaloric Effect in Relaxor Ferroelectric-based Materials -- Electrocaloric Effect in Multilayer Structures -- Electrocaloric Polymers -- Lead-free and exotic Electrocaloric Materials -- Indirect and Direct Measurements of the Electrocaloric Effect -- New Approaches to Electrocaloric-Based Multilayer Cooling -- Energy Harvesting from Temperature: use of Pyroelectric and Electrocaloric Properties.
520 _aSince 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.
650 0 _aSystems engineering.
650 0 _aSurfaces (Physics).
650 1 4 _aMaterials Science.
650 2 4 _aSurfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.
650 2 4 _aCharacterization and Evaluation of Materials.
650 2 4 _aCircuits and Systems.
700 1 _aZhang, Qi.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783642402630
830 0 _aEngineering Materials,
_x1612-1317 ;
_v34
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40264-7
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