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Piezoelectricity and Pyroelectricity

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In the previous chapters on transduction we have concentrated on those mechanisms which depend on changes in the energy stored in magnetic and electric fields. Virtually all of the constitutive relations linking mechanical and electrical or magnetic variables have been nonlinear (generally quadratic). In addition to these mechanisms there are linear transduction processes, some of which are capacitive and some of which are inductive. Of these processes, the most common and well studied is piezoelectricity, a phenomenon exhibited by some materials in which application of a strain causes the establishment of an electric field and vice versa. In this chapter we focus on piezoelectricity and piezoelectric transducers. The related phenomenon of pyroelectricity is also presented.

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Busch-Vishniac, I.J. (1999). Piezoelectricity and Pyroelectricity. In: Electromechanical Sensors and Actuators. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1434-2_5

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