Pyroelectric Materials : Physics and Applications /: Physics and Applications. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ashim Kumar Bain, Prem Chand.
• Authors: Bain, Ashim Kumar; Chand, Prem
• Contents: 1 Fundamentals of Dielectrics; 1.1 Dielectrics; 1.1.1 Polarization of Dielectrics; 1.1.2 Dispersion of Dielectric Polarization; 1.1.2.1 Electronic Polarization; 1.1.2.2 Ionic Polarization; 1.1.2.3 Orientation Polarization; 1.1.2.4 Space Charge Polarization; 1.1.3 Dielectric relaxation; 1.1.4 Debye relaxation; 1.1.5 Molecular Theory of Induced Charges in a Dielectric; 1.1.6: Capacitance of a Parallel Plate Capacitor; 1.1.7 Electric displacement field, Dielectric constant, and Electric susceptibility; 1.1.8 Local Field in a Dielectric; 1.1.8.1 Lorentz field, E2; 1.1.8.2 Field of dipoles inside cavity, E3; 1.1.9 Dielectrics Losses; 1.1.9.1 Dielectric Loss Angle; 1.1.9.2 Total and Specific Dielectric Losses; 1.1.10: Dielectrics Breakdown; ; 2 Pyroelectricity; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 History of pyroelectricity; 2.3 Theory of Pyroelectricity; 2.4 Simple model of pyroelectric effect; 2.5 Pyroelectric crystal symmetry; 2.6 Piezoelectricity; 2.7 Ferroelectricity; 2.7.1 Ferroelectric Phase Transitions; 2.7.2 Ferroelectric Domains; 2.7.3 Ferroelectric Domain Wall Motion; 2.7.4 Soft mode; ; 3 Pyroelectric materials and Applications; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Theory of Pyroelectric Detectors; 3.3 Material Figure-of-Merits; 3.4 Classification of pyroelectric materials; 3.4.1 Single crystals; 3.4.1.1 Triglycine sulphate (TGS); 3.4.1.2 Lithium tantalate (LT) and Lithium niobate (LN); 3.4.1.3 Barium strontium titanate (BST); 3.4.1.4 Strontium barium niobite (SBN); 3.4.2 Perovskite Ceramics; 3.4.2.1 Modified lead zirconate (PZ); 3.4.2.2 Modified lead titanate (PT); 3.4.3 Polymers; 3.4.4 Ceramic-polymer composites; 3.4.5 Lead-free ceramics; 3.4.6 Other pyroelectric materials; 3.4.6.1 Aluminium nitride (AlN); 3.4.6.2 Gallium nitride (GaN); 3.4.6.3 Zinc oxide (ZnO); ; 4 Pyroelectric Infrared Detectors; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Device configurations; 4.2.1 Thick film detectors; 4.2.2 Thin film detectors; 4.2.3 Hybrid focal plane array detector; 4.2.4 Linear array detector; 4.2.5 Periodic domain TFLTTM detector; 4.2.6 Terahertz thermal detector; 4.2.7 PVDF polymer detector; 4.2.8 TFP polymer detector; 4.2.9 TADPh polymer detector; 4.2.10 Integrated resonant absorber pyroelectric detector; 4.2.11 Resonant IR detector; 4.2.12: Plasmonic IR detector; 4.2.13: Graphene pyroelectric bolometer; ; 5 Pyroelectric Energy Harvesting; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Theory of Pyroelectric Energy harvesting; 5.3 Pyroelectricity in Ferroelectric Materials; 5.3.1 Thermodynamic Cycles of PyEH; 5.3.1 (a) Carnot Cycle; 5.3.1 (b) Ericsson Cycle; 5.3.1 (c) Olsen Cycle; 5.4 Pyroelectric Generators; 5.5 Pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.1 Polymer Based Pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.1.1 PyNGs Driven by Various Environmental Conditions; 5.5.1.2 Development of Pyroelectric Materials; 5.5.1.3 Wearable Pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.1.4 Hybrid Pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.2 Ceramic Based Pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.2.1 ZnO based pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.2.2 PZT based pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.2.3 Lead-free Ceramic based pyroelectric Nanogenerators; 5.5.3 Thermal nanophotonic- pyroelectric nanogenerator; 5.5.4 Challenges and Perspectives of Pyroelectric nanogenerators; ; 6 Pyroelectric fusion; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 History of Pyroelectric Fusion; 6.3 Pyroelectric neutron generators; 6.4 Pyroelectric X-ray generators;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Wiley-VCH
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783527839735
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