pyroelectric

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• Note that the pyroelectric effect is only observable during the period in which the temperature changes.

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• Physicists and engineers are likely to develop increasingly sensitive pyroelectric devices.

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• For a detailed treatment of the relations between various properties of a material and how those properties contribute to the pyroelectric effect, see box 1.

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• For details on the response and noise levels of pyroelectric detectors, see box 2.

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• The most important component of any pyroelectric device is the detector material.

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• The earliest version of a device for two-dimensional pyroelectric imaging was developed in the late 1970s.

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• In this single-element configuration intended to monitor radiation with a wavelength near 10 microns, two lead titanate pyroelectric elements are used.

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• Infrared detectors, such as the two types sketched in figure 3, can consist of single pyroelectric elements or one- or two-dimensional arrays of elements.

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• The devices operate at temperatures above the Curie level (in the so-called paraelectric phase), and an applied electric field induces the pyroelectric effect.

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• Triglycine sulfate (TGS) and its isomorphs have very favorable properties, including high pyroelectric coefficients and relatively low permittivity.

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Synonyms

P

pyroelectrical

vspyroelectric

• Specialized

9.9

Able to make a small electric charge when its temperature changes

has identical meaning but differs in form as an alternative adjective

Compounds

P

pyroelectric material

• Specialized

9.3

A material that makes an electric charge when heated or cooled

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Etymology