pyroelectric effect

pyroelectric effect
The production of electrical potential in a substance as the temperature increases.

Quartz crystals display a marked pyroelectric effect.


Wikipedia foundation.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Pyroelectric crystal — Pyroelectric crystals are crystals that generate electricity when heated. It is similar to piezoelectricity.Crystal symmetryCrystal structures can be divided into 32 classes, or point groups, according to the number of rotational axes and… …   Wikipedia

  • Pyroelectric fusion — refers to the technique of using pyroelectric crystals to generate high strength electrostatic fields to accelerate deuterium ions (tritium might also be used someday) into a metal hydride target also containing deuterium (or tritium) with… …   Wikipedia

  • Electrocaloric effect — The electrocaloric effect is where a material shows a reversible temperature change under an applied electric field. Electrocaloric materials were the focus of significant scientific interest in the 1960s and 1970s, but were not commercially… …   Wikipedia

  • Triboelectric effect — Triboelectric series: Most positively charged + Air Human skin Leather Rabbit s fur Glass Quartz Mica Human hair …   Wikipedia

  • Pyroelectricity — is the ability of certain materials to generate an electrical potential when they are heated or cooled. As a result of this change in temperature, positive and negative charges move to opposite ends through migration (i.e., the material becomes… …   Wikipedia

  • Energy harvesting — (also known as Power harvesting or energy scavenging ) is the process by which energy is captured and stored. Frequently this term is applied when speaking about small autonomous devices, like those used in sensor networks. A variety of different …   Wikipedia

  • Piezoelectricity — is the ability of some materials (notably crystals and certain ceramics, including bone) to generate an electric potentialPrinciples of Instrumental Analysis. 6th Edition, 2007. Skoog, Holler, and Crouch. Chapter 1, Sec. 1C 4, Pg. 9.] in response …   Wikipedia

  • Infrared — For other uses, see Infrared (disambiguation). An image of two people in mid infrared ( thermal ) light (false color) …   Wikipedia

  • Cadmium sulfide — Chembox new Name = Cadmium sulfide ImageFile = Hawleyite 3D balls.png ImageSize = 150px ImageName = 3D model of the structure of hawleyite ImageFile1 = Greenockite 3D balls.png ImageSize1 = 150px ImageName1 = 3D model of the structure of… …   Wikipedia

  • Electrical phenomena — are commonplace and unusual events that can be observed which illuminate the principles of the physics of electricity and are explained by them.Electrical phenomena are a somewhat arbitrary division of electromagnetic phenomena.Some examples… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”