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Electrical Effect and Influence Factors of Tourmaline

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Tourmaline is a crystalline boron silicate mineral with special electrical and optical behaviors. In this study, electrical performances of crystalline tourmaline samples from various deposit sites in China were evaluated. The results show that the piezoelectric constants of tourmalines, in a fixed crystalline direction, depend on their mineral species and the specialty elements in the crystal. The piezoelectric constant of dravite is higher than that of elbaite. The variety of piezoelectricity is resulted from the element type in crystal structure. Dielectric properties tests show that tourmaline is a low dielectric constant material and the dielectric constant is from 4×10−12pf/cm to 10×10−2pf/cm. The dielectric constant along C axis is higher than that in any other directions. Under room temperature, pyroelectric property of a crystal is proportional to the dielectric properties, and negatively correlated to the ferric oxide ratio.

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  1. China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Qi Lu & Feng Bai

  2. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, 49931, USA

    Bowen Li

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  1. Al Isra University, Jordan

    Shadia Jamil Ikhmayies (associate professor) (associate professor)

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Institute of Materials Processing, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Bowen Li (Research Associate Professor) (Research Associate Professor)

  3. Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

    John S. Carpenter (technical staff member) (technical staff member)

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang (professor) (professor)

  5. Brazilian Association of Metallurgy, Materials and Mining (ABM), Brazil

    Sergio Neves Monteiro (Vice-President) (Vice-President)

  6. CanmetMATERIALS Natural Resources Canada, Canada

    Jian Li (senior research scientist) (senior research scientist)

  7. Collegio Universitario di Torino, Italy

    Donato Firrao (President of the Board of Trustees) (President of the Board of Trustees)

  8. ArcelorMittal Global R&D, East Chicago, Indiana, USA

    Mingming Zhang (senior research engineer) (senior research engineer)

  9. School of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, China

    Zhiwei Peng (Associate Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor) (Associate Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor)

  10. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, USA

    Zhiwei Peng (Associate Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor) (Associate Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor)

  11. School of Engineering and Information Technology at UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

    Juan P. Escobedo-Diaz (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

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Lu, Q., Li, B., Bai, F. (2016). Electrical Effect and Influence Factors of Tourmaline. In: Ikhmayies, S.J., et al. Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48210-1_10

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