Communications Materials (Jun 2021)

A unified perturbative approach to electrocaloric effects

  • Mónica Graf,
  • Jorge Íñiguez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00167-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

Theoretical treatments of electrocaloric effects, interesting for their potential use in refrigeration, are mostly case specific. Here, a perturbative approach provides a unified physical understanding of the normal and inverse electrocaloric response occurring in ferroelectrics and antiferroelectrics.