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    theory for the processes behind pyroelectricity. Pierre Curie and his brother, Jacques Curie, studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery...
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  • petroleum exploration. The process of pyroelectricity has been known from ancient times. The first use of a pyroelectric field to accelerate deuterons was...
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  • considerations to be also piezoelectric and pyroelectric. The combined properties of memory, piezoelectricity, and pyroelectricity make ferroelectric capacitors very...
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    their knowledge of pyroelectricity with their understanding of the underlying crystal structures that gave rise to pyroelectricity to predict crystal...
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  • piezoelectric effect, which is another type of ferroelectric behavior. Pyroelectricity requires time-varying inputs and suffers from small power outputs in...
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  • effect is generally stronger in materials that also exhibit pyroelectricity, and all pyroelectric materials are also piezoelectric. These materials can be...
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    have low detection accuracy. Pyroelectric sensors convert thermal energy into electrical energy based on pyroelectricity. They have good sensitivity and...
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    Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms...
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  • observations in 1756. Haüy made detailed investigations of pyroelectricity; he detected pyroelectricity in calamine and showed that electricity in tourmaline...
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  • this work, for instance triboelectric generators, bistable systems, pyroelectric materials and continuing work on piezoelectric systems as well as those...
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    observations on pyroelectricity. He detected pyroelectricity in calamine, an oxide of zinc, as early as 1785. He studied pyroelectricity in a number of...
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    compound has the perovskite structure. It has optical, piezoelectric, and pyroelectric properties. Considerable information is available from commercial sources...
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  • physicist working on the general phenomena of piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity. In 1890, Pockels developed a general theory of electro-optics. In...
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    polar. All polar crystals are pyroelectric, so the ten polar crystal classes are sometimes referred to as the pyroelectric classes. There are a few crystal...
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  • coefficient (thermoelectric effect) Permittivity Piezoelectric constants Pyroelectricity Seebeck coefficient Curie temperature Diamagnetism Hall coefficient...
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    can (and generally do) have properties such as piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity, which centrosymmetric crystals lack.[citation needed] The nickel arsenide...
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    piezoelectric effects using Rochelle salts, which led to him naming the effect pyroelectricity. In 1919, Alexander McLean Nicolson worked with Rochelle salt, developing...
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    individual lenses. PIR with front cover removed, showing location of pyroelectric sensor (green arrow). Some PIRs are manufactured with internal, segmented...
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    L-Alanine doped Triglycine Sulfate (DLATGS or DLTGS). These crystals are pyroelectric and ferroelectric which allows their use as photodetector elements in...
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    transparent when prepared as large crystals. It is a ferroelectric, pyroelectric, and piezoelectric ceramic material that exhibits the photorefractive...
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  • Confinement type Other forms Colliding beam Migma Metal lattice Muon-catalyzed Pyroelectric...
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    Theophrastus the first record of pyroelectricity. The misconception arose soon after the discovery of the pyroelectric properties of tourmaline, which...
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    ; Deshpande, R.; Dillon, A. C.; Lehman, J. (2006). "Evaluation of a pyroelectric detector with a carbon multiwalled nanotube black coating in the infrared"...
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    power measurements. Pyroelectric sensor and calorimeter are commonly used for measuring the energy of laser pulses. Pyroelectric sensor can measure low...
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  • transducer may be electrochemical, optical, electronic, gravimetric, pyroelectric or piezoelectric. Based on the type of biotransducer, biosensors can...
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    manufacturing antimatter alone. Pyroelectric fusion was reported in April 2005 by a team at UCLA. The scientists used a pyroelectric crystal heated from −34 to...
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  • phenomenon of pyroelectricity was not limited to crystals with asymmetries (hemimorphism). He published 30 papers on the topic of pyroelectricity. He also...
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    The Olsen cycle is a pyroelectric cycle, which was developed between 1978 and 1986 by Olsen and Bruno, by Olsen and Brown, Olsen and Evans, as well as...
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    early missile guidance in World War II. 1938: Yeou Ta predicted that the pyroelectric effect could be used to detect infrared radiation. 1945: The Zielgerät...
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    propelled a number of developing applications on piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity. Polyvinylidine fluoride is produced by the radical polymerization...
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