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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Donald L. Hester, Donald D. Glower
Nuclear Technology | Volume 2 | Number 1 | February 1966 | Pages 41-43
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT66-A27566
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Previous publications have revealed that poled ferroelectrics can be used as detectors of radiation; however, the source of the charge release was speculative. A theoretical derivation using the theory of pyroelectricity is verified by the previously published data and by an especially designed experiment whereby the graph of the normalized charge release as a function of temperature is compared with normalized pyroelectric coefficent data. The experiment verifies quite conclusively that the constant of proportionality K in the equation, i/A = K (dγ/dt), is equal to p/C, where p is the pyroelectric coefficient and C is the specific heat. The appropriate value for K for ceramic lead zirconate titanate, Pb(Zr0.65Ti0.35)O3 + 1 wt% Nb2O5 (65:35PZT), is determined to be 0.6 picocoulombs per square centimeter per rad (PZT).
