With speeding up development of 5 G chips, high-efficient thermal structure and precise
management of tremendous heat becomes a substantial challenge to the power-hungry …

Competition between ground states at phase boundaries can lead to significant changes in
properties under stimuli, particularly when these ground states have different crystal …

Electrocaloric refrigeration which is environmentally benign has attracted considerable
attention. In distinction to ferroelectric materials, which exhibit an extremely high positive …

In the archetypal antiferroelectric PbZrO 3, antiparallel electric dipoles cancel each other,
resulting in zero spontaneous polarization at the macroscopic level. Yet in actual hysteresis …

The order-degree-modulated ferroic response and electrocaloric effect (ECE) in Pb (B 1, B
2) O 3-type B-site complex antiferroelectrics (AFEs) are explored in this work. The results …

Defect engineering plays a complex role in modulating macroscopic performance in
ferroelectric ceramics. Establishing V pb′′− V o∙∙ defect complex in nitrogen–annealed …

The electric field dependence of the electrocaloric effect is investigated in BaTiO3 and Ba
(Zr0. 12Ti0. 88) O3 by a direct method with sub-mK temperature resolution. The field …

The pursuit of high-efficiency and zero-emission refrigeration technologies has spurred
interest in electrocaloric (EC) refrigeration utilizing ferroelectric (FE) materials, where …

Antiferroelectric (AFE) materials are interesting due to recent discoveries of new prospective
applications, although the mechanisms of the phase transitions that are at the heart of these …

Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is emerging as a powerful atomic force microscope
based platform for mapping dynamic temperature distributions on the nanoscale. To date …