Comparison of directly and indirectly measured electrocaloric effect in relaxor ferroelectric polymers

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作者
Lu, S. G. [1 ]
Rozic, B. [2 ]
Zhang, Q. M. [1 ]
Kutnjak, Z. [2 ]
Pirc, R. [2 ]
Lin, Minren [1 ]
Li, Xinyu [1 ]
Gorny, Lee [1 ]
机构
[1] Penn State Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Mat Res Inst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[2] Jozef Stefan Inst, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia
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REFRIGERATION; COPOLYMER; BEHAVIOR;
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10.1063/1.3514255
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
We report the directly measured electrocaloric effect (ECE) (the adiabatic temperature change Delta T) of relaxor ferroelectric poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene) terpolymer and its blend with poly (vinylidene fluoride-chlorotrifluoroethylene). The results show that the directly measured Delta T in the relaxor terpolymer is much larger than that deduced from Maxwell relation and that the relaxor terpolymer possesses a giant ECE at room temperature. The large difference between the directly measured Delta T and that deduced indicates that the Maxwell relation, which is derived for ergodic systems, is not suitable for deducing ECE in the relaxor ferroelectric polymers, which are nonergodic (polar-glass) material systems. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3514255]
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