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Electrocaloric effects in multilayer capacitors for cooling applications

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For more than a century, humankind has achieved refrigeration by exploiting volatile gases that harm the environment when released to the atmosphere. More recently, the observation of electrocaloric effects in commercial multilayer capacitors has inspired the possibility of environmentally friendly cooling. In this article, we describe electrocaloric effects in multilayer capacitors for cooling applications, compare the electrocaloric performance of existing multilayer capacitors, and discuss the improvements required for practical cooling devices.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the ERC Starting Grant No. 680032. X.M. is grateful for support from The Royal Society. E.D. thanks the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) that supported this work through COFERMAT Grant No. FNR/P12/4853155/Kreisel.

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  1. Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, UK

    Xavier Moya & Neil D. Mathur

  2. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

    Emmanuel Defay

  3. Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan

    Sakyo Hirose

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Moya, X., Defay, E., Mathur, N.D. et al. Electrocaloric effects in multilayer capacitors for cooling applications. MRS Bulletin 43, 291–294 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2018.68

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