51. Room-Temperature Electrocaloric Effect in Layered Ferroelectric CuInP2S6 for Solid-State Refrigeration
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Wenzhuo Wu, Petro Maksymovych, Nina Balke Wisinger, Sabine M. Neumayer, Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Mengwei Si, Peide D. Ye, Jing-Kai Qin, Pai-Ying Liao, Atanu K. Saha, Jie Jian, Haiyan Wang, and Shengjie Gao
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Materials science ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Thermodynamics ,Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Isothermal process ,symbols.namesake ,Electric field ,Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) ,General Materials Science ,Adiabatic process ,Condensed Matter - Materials Science ,Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics ,General Engineering ,Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) ,Refrigeration ,Physics - Applied Physics ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Ferroelectricity ,0104 chemical sciences ,symbols ,Electrocaloric effect ,Curie temperature ,van der Waals force ,0210 nano-technology - 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 (|{\Delta}T|) of 3.3 K, isothermal entropy change (|{\Delta}S|) of 5.8 J kg-1 K-1 at |{\Delta}E|=142.0 kV cm-1 at 315 K (above and near room temperature) are achieved, with a large EC strength (|{\Delta}T|/|{\Delta}E|) of 29.5 mK cm kV-1. The ECE of CIPS is also investigated theoretically by numerical simulation and a further EC performance projection is provided., Comment: 32 pages, 10 figures
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- 2019