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Electrocaloric Effect in Relaxor Ferroelectric-Based Materials

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Electrocaloric Materials

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Although electrocaloric effect (ECE) has been known for a reasonably long time, it is not until quite recently that the interest has renewed again due to pioneering work by Mischenko et al. (2006).

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    Jani Peräntie, Juha Hagberg & Antti Uusimäki

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Peräntie, J., Correia, T., Hagberg, J., Uusimäki, A. (2014). Electrocaloric Effect in Relaxor Ferroelectric-Based Materials. In: Correia, T., Zhang, Q. (eds) Electrocaloric Materials. Engineering Materials, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40264-7_3

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