A highly efficient cascade electrocaloric cooling tube with enhanced temperature change by sawtooth voltage

Autor: Peijia Bai, Heng Cui, Ding Zhang, Yiwen Bo, Lili Liu, Rujun Ma
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Next Materials, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 100001- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2949-8228
DOI: 10.1016/j.nxmate.2023.100001
Popis: Electrocaloric (EC) cooling technology has emerged as a powerful candidate for the next-generation cooler. Microfluidic EC cooling device could directly be embedded inside microelectronics to build up a highly efficient thermal management system. However, the microfluidic EC cooling device with large temperature lift still remains a big challenge. Here, we prepared a high-performance cascade EC cooling tube with multistage cooling accumulation and improved its cooling power by sawtooth voltage. The cascade EC tube realized a maximum temperature drop of 4.6 K. A maximum temperature span of 4.2 K was obtained when the flow velocity of liquid medium is 10 mm/s. A continuous sub-ambient liquid medium with improved cooling power can be achieved after the cascade EC tube cycle loading with sawtooth voltage. This high-performance cascade EC tube provides a sub-ambient liquid medium, opening up a unique way to enhance the cooling power and realize multistage cooling accumulation. It demonstrates the great application potential in smart thermal management of microelectronic systems.
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