Abstract
The influence of intrinsic surface tension on the electrocaloric effect (ECE) in the ferroelectric nanomaterial with vortex domain structures is studied by using the phase field method. The calculation results show that a giant adiabatic temperature change (ΔT = 5.8 K) related to the toroidal moment change appears in the PbTiO3 (PTO) ferroelectric nanoparticle with the surface tension coefficient μ = 5 N/m under the vorticity vector of curled electric field (Q1 = 0 mV/Å2, ΔQ1 = 0.9 mV/Å2) at room temperature. The magnitude of the adiabatic temperature change decreases with the increase in surface tension. The decrease in size is found to enhance the ECE of PTO nanoparticle with vortex domain structures when the surface tension is not considered.
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