The giant electrocaloric effect in inorganic and organic ferroelectric relaxor systems

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 430, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-102

  Rozic B ^a,c   Malic B ^a   Ursic H ^a,c   Holc, J ^a,c   Kosec, M ^a,c   Lu, S G ^b   Zhang, Q M ^b   Kutnjak, Z ^a,c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CoE Namaste ^*  (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electrocaloric effect; Polymer; Relaxor ferroelectric; Thick film

Indexed keywords

COOLING DEVICES; CRITICAL POINTS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ELECTROCALORIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; FERROELECTRIC RELAXORS; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; NEAR ROOM TEMPERATURE; PLZT; PLZT CERAMICS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RELAXOR FERROELECTRIC; RELAXOR FERROELECTRIC POLYMERS; RESPONSIVITY;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; POLYMERS; THICK FILMS;

PYROELECTRICITY;

EID: 84864578710     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150193.2012.677726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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