2023 MRS Spring Meeting
Tutorial EN03 (Virtual)—Caloric Materials and Devices—Fundamentals and Applications
San Francisco, California
This tutorial will cover all types of caloric material, and will range from fundamental aspects to applications of such materials in energy-efficient heating and cooling devices.
Instructors: Julie Staunton, University of Warwick; Gian Guzman-Verri, University of Costa Rica; Oliver Gutfleisch, University of Darmstadt; Emmanuel Defay, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
This tutorial will only be available during the online portion of the 2023 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit.
This tutorial will cover all types of caloric material, and will range from fundamental aspects to applications of such materials in energy-efficient heating and cooling devices.
Learning objectives:
- Thermodynamics of magnetocaloric, electrocaloric and mechanocaloric materials.
- First-principle models for magnetocaloric, electrocaloric and mechanocaloric materials.
- Phenomenological models for magnetocaloric, electrocaloric and mechanocaloric materials.
- Fundamentals of hysteresis and energy dissipation.
- Key principles of solid-state refrigerant caloric materials.
- Fundamental design principles for magnetocaloric and electrocaloric heating and cooling devices.
- Key engineering aspects of magnetocaloric and electrocaloric heating and cooling devices.
- Performance metrics for caloric devices.