Brigita Rožič

TL;DR: In this article, the electrocaloric effect (ECE) in inorganic thin film and organic relaxor ferroelectrics is investigated by directly measuring the ECE around room temperature, and the results reveal that giant ECEs can be obtained in the high energy electron irradiated poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) relaxor copolymer and in the La-doped Pb(ZrTi)O3 relaxor ceramic thin films, which are much larger than that from the normal ferroelectric counterparts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the directly measured electrocaloric effect (ECE) (the adiabatic temperature change ΔT) of relaxor ferroelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluorethylene-chlorofluoroethylene).

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrocaloric effect (ECE) was studied as a function of the magnitude of the electric field step E in the vicinity of the critical point in several bulk relaxor ferroelectric ceramic systems.

TL;DR: Systematic high-resolution calorimetric studies reveal thatblue phase III is effectively stabilized in a wide temperature range by mixing surface-functionalized nanoparticles with chiral liquid crystals, yielding a robust method to stabilize blue phases, especially blue phase III.

TL;DR: In this paper, the PMN-10PT relaxor ceramic exhibits a relatively large electrocaloric change of temperature ΔTEC> 1 K at room temperature, and the experimental testing of the cooling device demonstrates the efficient regeneration and establishment of the temperature span between the hot and cold sides of the regenerator.