Abstract
We have investigated the electrocaloric (EC) properties of the ceramic 0.7Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.3PbTiO3. A variety of samples with different median grain sizes, i.e., 1.0, 2.2 and 4.0 μm, and relative densities of about 96% were prepared using atmospheric sintering at 1200oC for 2, 8 and 16 h. The ceramic material with a median grain size of 2.2 μm exhibited the highest value for the EC temperature change, i.e., 1.27 K at 60 kV cm−1, measured with a high-resolution calorimeter. This value is 25 and 19% higher than the value for the ceramics with the finer and the coarser grains, respectively.
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