Electrocaloric materials : new generation of coolers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Correia, Tatiana (Editor), Zhang, Qi (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Heidelberg : Springer, [2014]
Series:	Engineering materials ; 34.
Subjects:	Pyroelectricity. Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery > Materials. Materials science. Ferroelectric thin films.

Table of Contents:

Electrocaloric 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.