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Orientation dependence of electrocaloric effects in Pb(Zn 1/3Nb2/3)-PbTiO3 single crystals

  • Rami Chukka
  • , Suresh Vandrangi
  • , Zuhuang Chen
  • , Lu You
  • , Junling Wang
  • , Ping Yang
  • , Lang Chen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Nanyang Technological University
  • National University of Singapore
  • Southern University of Science and Technology

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Abstract

Electrocaloric effects of (001), (011) and (111) oriented single crystals have been thoroughly investigated to study the ferroelectric-ferroelectric (FE-FE) phase transition induced isothermal entropy changes in 0.94Pb(Zn 1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.06PbTiO3 (PZN-PT) material. The results showed that the PZN-PT crystals oriented in (111) direction exhibit ∼ 38% higher electrocaloric cooling values near lower critical phase transitions from rhombohedral (R) to tetragonal (T) phases in PZN-PT crystals, compared to those oriented in (011) direction. Though (111) samples display higher cooling values, (011) samples showed broader cooling curves due to their easily switchable characteristics between R and T phases.

Original languageEnglish
Article number072118
JournalAIP Advances
Volume3
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2013
Externally publishedYes

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