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.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Electrocaloric effect2. Thermodynamics of Electrocaloric effect
3. Modelling of Electrocaloric effect
4. First-principles based simulation of the electrocaloric effect
5. Negative electrocaloric effect and its use for solid-state refrigeration
6. Materials issues in the synthesis of electrocaloric structures
7. Electrocaloric effects in ferroelectric perovskites
8. Electrocaloric effects in relaxor ferroelectrics
9. Electrocaloric effects in liquid crystals
10. Electrocaloric Effects in Thin Film Structures
11. Electrocaloric Polymers and Related Materials
12. Electrocaloric effects in novel fluorite-structure ferroelectrics
13. Multiferroic layered structures for electrocaloric applications
14. Direct and indirect measurements of Electrocaloric effect in metal oxides
15. Basics of design and modelling of regenerative electrocaloric coolers
16. Numerical modelling and design of regenerative electrocaloric coolers: State of the art
17. Electrocaloric devices using cantilever structures
18. Electrocaloric-based applications: challenges and perspectives