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International Journal of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Volume 4 (2018), Article ID 4:IJMME-141, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2018/141
Review Article
Electrocaloric Effect and Phase Transitions in Ferroelectrics

Dandan Li and Sheng-Guo Lu*

School of Materials and Energy,Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006 China
Prof. Sheng-Guo Lu, Guangdong Provincial Research Center on Smart Materials and Energy Conversion Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Soft Condensed Matter, School of Materials and Energy,Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006 China; E-mail: sglu@gdut.edu.cn
04 March 2018; 21 April 2018; 23 April 2018
Li D, Lu SG (2018) Electrocaloric Effect and Phase Transitions in Ferroelectrics. Int J Metall Mater Eng 4: 141. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2018/141
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51372042), the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2015A030308004), and the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund (Grant No. U1501246).

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