Giant room-temperature barocaloric effect and pressure-mediated electrocaloric effect in BaTiO{sub 3} single crystal

Journal Article · Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4873162· OSTI ID:22262775

Liu, Yang ^[1]; Wei, Jie ^[1]; Janolin, Pierre-Eymeric; Infante, Ingrid C.; Dkhil, Brahim ^[1]; Lou, Xiaojie ^[2]

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1. Laboratoire Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides, UMR 8580 CNRS-Ecole Centrale Paris, Grande Voie des Vignes, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex 92295 (France)
2. Multi-disciplinary Materials Research Center, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, and State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049 (China)

Barocaloric effect in BaTiO{sub 3} single crystal is studied by a thermodynamic phenomenological model. It is demonstrated that a giant barocaloric effect can be achieved near room temperature with an adiabatic temperature change of more than 3 K and a temperature span about 50 K. As expected, the electrocaloric peak can be shifted towards room temperature by pressure. However, a slight reduction of the electrocaloric peak is found in contrast to relaxor ferroelectrics and LiNbO{sub 3}. We believe that our findings could open a potential route by combining the barocaloric effect and pressure-mediated electrocaloric effect in BaTiO{sub 3} single crystal for cooling devices.

• OSTI ID: 22262775
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 16; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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