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Electrocaloric cooling with electrostatic actuation

Pei, Qibing·Ma, Rujun·Zhang, Ziyang·Kornbluh, Roy·Huber, David
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A solid-state heat transporting device including a heat transporting element whose uniformity of contact with one or multiple surfaces is controllable so that various amounts of heat may be transported to and from the one or multiple surfaces. The heat transporting element uses the electrocaloric effect to absorb and release the heat and the uniformity of contact is controlled using an electrostatic effect which may change the shape of the heat transporting element. In one embodiment, the heat transporting element is an electrostatically actuated P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) polymer stack achieving a high specific cooling power of 2.8 W/g and a COP of 13 (the highest reported coefficient of performance to date) when used as a cooling device.

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Pei, Qibing, Ma, Rujun, Zhang, Ziyang, Kornbluh, Roy, Huber, David. 2022-07-26. Electrocaloric cooling with electrostatic actuation. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1924926

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