The Electrocaloric Effect
Materials and Applications
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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
- Includes a comprehensive introduction to electrocaloric effect, covering 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
- Part 1: Fundamentals of Electrocaloric effect
1. Introduction to Electrocaloric effect
2. Thermodynamics of Electrocaloric effect
3. Modelling of Electrocaloric effect
4. Molecular dynamics simulations of Electrocaloric effect
5. Electrocaloric effect and conductivity
6. Negative electrocaloric effect and its use for solid-state refrigeration
Part 2: Electrocaloric materials and their optimization
7. Materials issues in the synthesis of electrocaloric structures
8. Electrocaloric effects in ferroelectric perovskites
9. Electrocaloric effects in relaxor ferroelectrics
10. Electrocaloric effects in liquid crystals
11. Electrocaloric effects in lead-free materials
12. Electrocaloric effects in thin film materials
13. Electrocaloric effects in ferroelectric polymers
14. Electrobarocaloric effects in composite structures
15. Electrocaloric effects in novel ferroelectrics with fluorite structure
16. Electrocaloric effects in multilayer structures
17. Multicaloric effects in multiferroic structures
Part 3: Electrocaloric measurements and device applications
18. Direct and indirect measurements of Electrocaloric effect in metal oxides
19. Electrocaloric prototypes: towards efficient solid-state refrigeration
20. Numerical modelling and design of a regenerative electrocaloric coolers
21. Electrocaloric devices using cantilever structures
22. Electrocaloric-based applications: challenges and perspectives
Product details
- No. of pages: 525
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2023
- Published: January 1, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128216477
About the Editors
Andrei Kholkin
Dr. Andrei Kholkin is a Principal Investigator at the Center for Research in Ceramic and Composite Materials and Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Dr. Kholkin’s research interests are in the area of materials science of ferroelectrics: thin films, single crystals and ceramics. His study is mainly devoted to materials for piezoelectric devices, degradation effects, and, recently, to nanoscale characterization by Scanning Probe Microscopy techniques.
Affiliations and Expertise
Principal Investigator, Center for Research in Ceramic and Composite Materials, Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Oleg Pakhomov
Dr. Oleg Pakhomov is an Associate Professor of Cyrogenics and Cryoelectronics at ITMO University in Russia. Dr. Pakhomov’s primary research interests include the study of materials with ferroelectric, piezoelectric and electrocaloric properties.
Affiliations and Expertise
Associate Professor of Cyrogenics and Cryoelectronics, ITMO University, Russia
Alexander Semenov
Dr. 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
Alexander Tselev
Dr. Alexander Tselev is a Principal Researcher at the Aveiro Institute of Materials and Department of Physics at 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