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ArticleNature communications2024

Electronic cooling and energy harvesting using ferroelectric polymer composites.

Kailun Zou, Peijia Bai, Kanghua Li, Fangyuan Luo, Jiajie Liang, Ling Lin, Rujun Ma, Qi Li, Shenglin Jiang, Qing Wang and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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11 authors.

Kailun Zou *School of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Peijia Bai *School of Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Kanghua LiSchool of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2953-5936
Fangyuan LuoSchool of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Jiajie LiangState Key Laboratory of Power System, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Ling LinSchool of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Rujun MaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. malab@nankai.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7892-5212
Qi LiState Key Laboratory of Power System, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. qili1020@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8282-4884
Shenglin JiangSchool of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6500-7364
Qing WangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. wang@matse.psu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5968-3235
Guangzu ZhangSchool of Integrated Circuits, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. zhanggz@hust.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0659-4527

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thermal management emerges as a grand challenge of next-generation electronics. Efforts to develop compact, solid-state cooling devices have led to the exploration of the electrocaloric effect of ferroelectric polymers. Despite recent advances, the applications of electrocaloric polymers on electronics operating at elevated temperatures remain essentially unexplored. Here, we report that the ferroelectric polymer composite composed of highly-polarized barium strontium titanate nanofibers and electron-accepting [6,6] phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester retains fast electrocaloric responses and stable cyclability at elevated temperatures. We demonstrate the effectiveness of electrocaloric cooling in a polymer composite for a pyroelectric energy harvesting device. The device utilizes a simulated central processing unit (CPU) as the heat source. Our results show that the device remains operational even when the CPU is overheated. Furthermore, we show that the composite functions simultaneously as a pyroelectric energy converter to harvest thermal energy from an overheated chip into electricity in the electrocaloric process. This work suggests a distinct approach for overheating protection and recycling waste heat of microelectronics.

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