Giant electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric poly(vinylidenefluoride- trifluoroethylene) copolymers near a first-order ferroelectric transition

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Li, Xinyu ^a   Qian, Xiao Shi ^a   Gu, Haiming ^a   Chen, Xiangzhong ^a   Lu, S G ^a   Lin, Minren ^a   Bateman, Fred ^b   Zhang, Q M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC TEMPERATURE CHANGE; ELECTRO-CALORIC EFFECTS; FERROELECTRIC PARAELECTRIC TRANSITION; FERROELECTRIC POLYMERS; FERROELECTRIC TRANSITION; HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON IRRADIATION; INTERMEDIATE PHASIS; ISOTHERMAL ENTROPY CHANGE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRICITY; PYROELECTRICITY;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84875922885     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4756697     Document Type: Article

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