Scaling Law for Electrocaloric Temperature Change in Antiferroelectrics

Authors

Sergey Lisenkov, University of South FloridaFollow
B. K. Mani, University of South Florida
E. Glazkova, University of South Florida
C. W. Miller, Rochester Institute of Technology
Inna Ponomareva, University of South FloridaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-22-2016

Keywords

Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics, Scaling laws

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19590

Abstract

A combination of theoretical and first-principles computational methods, along with experimental evidence from the literature, were used to predict the existence of a scaling law for the electrocaloric temperature change in antiferroelectric materials. We show that the temperature change scales quadratically with electric field, allowing a simple transformation to collapse the set of ΔT(E) onto a single curve. This offers a unique method that can be used to predict electrocaloric behavior beyond the limits of present measurement ranges or in regions where data are not yet available.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Scientific Reports, v. 6, art. 19590

This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Nature Publishing Group in Scientific Reports. It is available online: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19590

Scholar Commons Citation

Lisenkov, Sergey; Mani, B. K.; Glazkova, E.; Miller, C. W.; and Ponomareva, Inna, "Scaling Law for Electrocaloric Temperature Change in Antiferroelectrics" (2016). Physics Faculty Publications. 26.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phy_facpub/26