Electrocaloric and elastocaloric effects in soft materials

Bulk relaxor ferroelectric ceramics as a working body for an electrocaloric cooling device

(2015) Uroš Plaznik et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Too cool to work

(2015) Xavier Moya et al.   Nature Physics

Nano-Objects and Ions in Liquid Crystals: Ion Trapping Effect and Related Phenomena

(2015) Yuriy Garbovskiy et al.   Crystals

Caloric materials near ferroic phase transitions

(2014) X. Moya et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Nanoparticle-induced twist-grain boundary phase

(2014) Maja Trček et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Large Electrocaloric Effect in a Dielectric Liquid Possessing a Large Dielectric Anisotropy Near the Isotropic-Nematic Transition

(2013) Xiao-Shi Qian et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A chip scale electrocaloric effect based cooling device

(2013) Haiming Gu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electrocaloric materials for future solid-state refrigeration technologies

(2012) Matjaz Valant   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Influence of the critical point on the electrocaloric response of relaxor ferroelectrics

(2011) Brigita Rožič et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Electrocaloric effect in relaxor ferroelectrics

(2011) R. Pirc et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Organic and inorganic relaxor ferroelectrics with giant electrocaloric effect

(2010) S. G. Lu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

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

(2010) S. G. Lu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Direct Measurements of the Giant Electrocaloric Effect in Soft and Solid Ferroelectric Materials

(2010) B. Rožič et al.   FERROELECTRICS

Investigations of phase transitions in liquid crystals by means of adiabatic scanning calorimetry

(2009) Jan Thoen et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Controlling the Critical Behavior of Paranematic to Nematic Transition in Main-Chain Liquid Single-Crystal Elastomers

(2009) George Cordoyiannis et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Large Electrocaloric Effect in Ferroelectric Polymers Near Room Temperature

(2008) B. Neese et al.   SCIENCE