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The Electrocaloric Effect

Materials and Applications

  • 1st Edition - February 16, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Andrei L. Kholkin, Oleg V. Pakhomov, Alexander A. Semenov, Alexander Tselev
  • Language: English

The Electrocaloric Effect: Materials and Applications reviews the fundamentals of the electrocaloric effect, the most relevant electrocaloric materials, and electrocaloric measur… Read more

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Description

The Electrocaloric Effect: Materials and Applications reviews the fundamentals of the electrocaloric effect, the most relevant electrocaloric materials, and electrocaloric measurements and device applications. The book introduces the electrocaloric effect, along with modeling and simulations of this effect. Then, it addresses the latest advances in synthesis, characterization and optimization of the most relevant electrocaloric materials, including ferroelectric materials, liquid materials, lead-free materials, polymers and composites. Finally, there is a review of the latest techniques in measurement and applications in refrigeration and cooling and a discussion of the advantages, challenges and perspectives of the future of electrocaloric refrigeration.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive introduction to the electrocaloric effect including experimental techniques to measure, model, and simulate the effect
  • Reviews the most relevant electrocaloric materials such as composites, polymers, metal oxides, ferroelectric materials, and more
  • Touches on the design and application of electrocaloric materials for devices with potential cooling and refrigeration applications

Readership

Materials Scientists and Engineers. Physicists

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Electrocaloric effect

2. Thermodynamics of Electrocaloric effect

3. Modelling of Electrocaloric effect

4. First-principles based simulation of the electrocaloric effect

5. Negative electrocaloric effect and its use for solid-state refrigeration

6. Materials issues in the synthesis of electrocaloric structures

7. Electrocaloric effects in ferroelectric perovskites

8. Electrocaloric effects in relaxor ferroelectrics

9. Electrocaloric effects in liquid crystals

10. Electrocaloric Effects in Thin Film Structures

11. Electrocaloric Polymers and Related Materials

12. Electrocaloric effects in novel fluorite-structure ferroelectrics

13. Multiferroic layered structures for electrocaloric applications

14. Direct and indirect measurements of Electrocaloric effect in metal oxides

15. Basics of design and modelling of regenerative electrocaloric coolers

16. Numerical modelling and design of regenerative electrocaloric coolers: State of the art

17. Electrocaloric devices using cantilever structures

18. Electrocaloric-based applications: challenges and perspectives

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 22, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Andrei L. Kholkin

Dr. Andrei L. Kholkin is a Principal Researcher at the CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials and Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Dr. Kholkin’s research interests are in the area of materials science of ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, and multiferroics: thin films, single crystals and ceramics. His study is mainly devoted to functional materials for piezoelectric devices, degradation effects, and, recently, to their nanoscale characterization by Scanning Probe Microscopy techniques.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Coordinator at the CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials and Physics Department in Portugal

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Oleg V. Pakhomov

Prof. Oleg Pakhomov was an Associate Professor of Cryogenics and Cryoelectronics at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Pakhomov’s primary research interests included the study of materials with ferroelectric, piezoelectric and electrocaloric properties. He passed away in October, 2021.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Cryogenics and Cryoelectronics at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia

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Alexander A. Semenov

Prof. Alexander A. Semenov is the Head of the Department of Physical Electronics and Technology at St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University in Russia. Dr. Semenov current research activities include the physics of wave processes in layered structures and applications of ferroelectric, ferromagnetic films and layered nanostructures in microwave electronics.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of the Department of Physical Electronics and Technology, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia

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Alexander Tselev

Dr. Alexander Tselev is a Principal Researcher at the CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials and Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Dr. Tselev’s primary research interests include the physics of novel functional materials for energy storage and harvesting as well as for electronics, photonics, and data storage with a focus on complex oxide materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal Researcher, Aveiro Institute of Materials and Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal

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