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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
