Giant negative electrocaloric effect in PbZrO3/0.88BaTiO3–0.12Bi(Mg1/2,Ti1/2)O3 multilayered composite ferroelectric thin film for solid-state refrigeration

A giant negative electrocaloric (EC) effect in a PbZrO3/(0.88BaTiO3–0.12 Bi(Mg1/2,Ti1/2)O3) (PZ/(BT-BMT)) multilayered composite ferroelectric (MCFE) thin film which is grown on Pt(111)/Ti/SiO2/Si(100) substrates by the sol-gel method is investigated in this work. The negative EC effect in the PZ/(BMT-BT) MCFE thin film is greatly higher than that in the PZ AFE thin film with an adiabatic temperature change (ATC) ΔT = 1.5 K. The ATC ΔT of the PZ/(BMT-BT) MCFE thin film is −32 K under the applied electric field change ΔE = 1151 kV/cm. The result is conducive to enhance the EC refrigeration efficiency greatly.