Giant room temperature electrocaloric effect in a layered hybrid perovskite ferroelectric: [(CH3)2CHCH2NH3]2PbCl4

Most known electrocaloric materials show relatively poor cooling performance near room temperature, hindering their applications. Here, the authors achieve large electrocaloric effect near room temperature in a hybrid perovskite ferroelectric, useful for high-performance solid-state refrigeration.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xitao Liu, Zhenyue Wu, Tong Guan, Haidong Jiang, Peiqing Long, Xiaoqi Li, Chengmin Ji, Shuang Chen, Zhihua Sun, Junhua Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25644-x