Pyroelectricity: From ancient curiosity to modern imaging tool

Physics Today

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 31-36

  Lang, Sidney B ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BORDER PATROL; CURIE LEVEL; DIPOLE MOMENT; INFRARED RADIATION (IR) IMAGING TOOLS;

PYROELECTRICITY;

EID: 23744484471     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2062916     Document Type: Article

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