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Title: Room-Temperature Electrocaloric Effect in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 for Solid-State Refrigeration

Abstract

A material with reversible temperature change capability under an external electric field, known as the electrocaloric effect (ECE), has long been considered as a promising solid-state cooling solution. However, electrocaloric (EC) performance of EC materials generally is not sufficiently high for real cooling applications. As a result, exploring EC materials with high performance is of great interest and importance. Here, we report on the ECE of ferroelectric materials with van der Waals layered structure (CuInP2S6 or CIPS in this work in particular). Over 60% polarization charge change is observed within a temperature change of only 10 K at Curie temperature. Large adiabatic temperature change (|ΔT|) of 3.3 K and isothermal entropy change (|ΔS|) of 5.8 J kg–1 K–1 at |ΔE| = 142.0 kV cm–1 and at 315 K (above and near room temperature) are achieved, with a large EC strength (|ΔT|/|ΔE|) of 29.5 mK cm kV–1. Furthermore, the ECE of CIPS is also investigated theoretically by numerical simulation, and a further EC performance projection is provided.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1560477
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Nano
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; CuInP2S6; ferroelectrics; electrocaloric effect; two-dimensional; room temperature

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Si, Mengwei, Saha, Atanu K., Liao, Pai -Ying, Gao, Shengjie, Neumayer, Sabine M., Jian, Jie, Qin, Jingkai, Wisinger, Nina Balke, Wang, Haiyan, Maksymovych, Petro, Wu, Wenzhuo, Gupta, Sumeet K., and Ye, Peide D. Room-Temperature Electrocaloric Effect in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 for Solid-State Refrigeration. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b01491.
Si, Mengwei, Saha, Atanu K., Liao, Pai -Ying, Gao, Shengjie, Neumayer, Sabine M., Jian, Jie, Qin, Jingkai, Wisinger, Nina Balke, Wang, Haiyan, Maksymovych, Petro, Wu, Wenzhuo, Gupta, Sumeet K., & Ye, Peide D. Room-Temperature Electrocaloric Effect in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 for Solid-State Refrigeration. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b01491
Si, Mengwei, Saha, Atanu K., Liao, Pai -Ying, Gao, Shengjie, Neumayer, Sabine M., Jian, Jie, Qin, Jingkai, Wisinger, Nina Balke, Wang, Haiyan, Maksymovych, Petro, Wu, Wenzhuo, Gupta, Sumeet K., and Ye, Peide D. Fri . "Room-Temperature Electrocaloric Effect in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 for Solid-State Refrigeration". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b01491. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1560477.
@article{osti_1560477,
title = {Room-Temperature Electrocaloric Effect in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 for Solid-State Refrigeration},
author = {Si, Mengwei and Saha, Atanu K. and Liao, Pai -Ying and Gao, Shengjie and Neumayer, Sabine M. and Jian, Jie and Qin, Jingkai and Wisinger, Nina Balke and Wang, Haiyan and Maksymovych, Petro and Wu, Wenzhuo and Gupta, Sumeet K. and Ye, Peide D.},
abstractNote = {A material with reversible temperature change capability under an external electric field, known as the electrocaloric effect (ECE), has long been considered as a promising solid-state cooling solution. However, electrocaloric (EC) performance of EC materials generally is not sufficiently high for real cooling applications. As a result, exploring EC materials with high performance is of great interest and importance. Here, we report on the ECE of ferroelectric materials with van der Waals layered structure (CuInP2S6 or CIPS in this work in particular). Over 60% polarization charge change is observed within a temperature change of only 10 K at Curie temperature. Large adiabatic temperature change (|ΔT|) of 3.3 K and isothermal entropy change (|ΔS|) of 5.8 J kg–1 K–1 at |ΔE| = 142.0 kV cm–1 and at 315 K (above and near room temperature) are achieved, with a large EC strength (|ΔT|/|ΔE|) of 29.5 mK cm kV–1. Furthermore, the ECE of CIPS is also investigated theoretically by numerical simulation, and a further EC performance projection is provided.},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.9b01491},
journal = {ACS Nano},
number = 8,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: (a) Top- and side-view of CIPS, showing an ABC sulfur stacking, filled by Cu, In and P-P pairs and separated by a van der Waals gap as a ferroelectric insulator with van der Waals layered structure. (b) HAADF-STEM image of thin CIPS flake viewed along [001] axis andmore » the corresponding SAED pattern. (c) Temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy on CIPS thin film. (d) Temperature-dependent Raman peak intensity at 373.8 cm-1, showing a large decrease in Raman intensity at 315 K.« less

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