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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 90, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2750546
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Monodomain contributions to the electrocaloric effect in mechanically free (bulk) and laterally clamped (thin film) BaTiO3 are computed using a thermodynamic analysis. The authors show that the intrinsic electrocaloric coefficient at electric fields sufficient to destroy the discontinuous ferroelectric phase transition results in an adiabatic temperature change of 8 K that agrees closely with the giant value of 12 K recently observed experimentally for lead zirconate titanate thin films [A. S. Mischenko et al., Science 311, 1270 (2006)]. Perfect lateral clamping transforms the discontinuous transition into a continuous transition, which decreases the magnitude of the electrocaloric effect by 20% but reduces its sensitivity to temperature. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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