Scaling law for electrocaloric temperature change in antiferroelectrics

Sci Rep. 2016 Jan 22:6:19590. doi: 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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't