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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 47, Pages 24533-24537Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra01875c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11272274, 11372266, 11032010]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [12JJ1007]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20114301110004]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China [201143]
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An enhanced electrocaloric (EC) effect is observed in a 300 nm compositionally graded Ba(1-x)SrxTiO3 (BST) film prepared by a sol-gel method. It is found that the maximum EC effect in the compositionally graded films is much larger than that in the uniform film with the same thickness and external field. We infer that the enhanced EC effect is attributed to internal strains and space charge accumulation existing at the interfaces of the compositionally graded film. A thermodynamic model is developed to investigate our deduction, and the results are in agreement with the experimental results.
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