pyroelectric

Speech parts

1. pyroelectric - Noun

2. pyroelectric - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.

A substance which becomes electrically polar when heated, exhibiting opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.

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"Apart from more advanced design elements, to make a pyroelectric soft material all you need is to embed static, stable charges into the material and ensure they don't leak out. Source: Internet

The scientists used a pyroelectric crystal heated from −34 to 7 °C (−29 to 45 °F), combined with a tungsten needle to produce an electric field of about 25 gigavolts per meter to ionize and accelerate deuterium nuclei into an erbium deuteride target. Source: Internet

While single crystals of ZnO are piezoelectric and pyroelectric, polycrystalline (ceramic) ZnO with randomly oriented grains exhibits neither piezoelectric nor pyroelectric effect. Source: Internet

If you do that, they will act pyroelectric, and that's what we've been able prove in our model. Source: Internet

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