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Pyroelectric Properties of Alanine Doped TGS Single Crystalline Thick Films under Constant Electric Stress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Lucian Pintilie
Affiliation:
National Institute of Materials Physics, Atomistilor 105 bis, P.O. Box MG-7, 76900 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania, Fax: +401- 4930267; E-mail: pintilie@alpha1.infim.ro
Ion Matei
Affiliation:
National Institute of Materials Physics, Atomistilor 105 bis, P.O. Box MG-7, 76900 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania, Fax: +401- 4930267
Ioana Pintilie
Affiliation:
National Institute of Materials Physics, Atomistilor 105 bis, P.O. Box MG-7, 76900 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania, Fax: +401- 4930267
Horia V. Alexandru
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, RomaniaP.O.Box 74-165, Bucharest, Romania, Phone / Fax: +401 – 7465066; E-mail: horia@alpha1.inphim.ro
Ciceron Berbecaru
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, RomaniaP.O.Box 74-165, Bucharest, Romania, Phone / Fax: +401 – 7465066
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Abstract

Pyroelectric properties of triglycine sulfate (TGS) thick films, separately doped with L and D alanine were investigated. Internal bias field of about 1 kV/cm, induced by the two dopants, stabilize the polarization in the opposite direction on the ferroelectric axis. Pyroelectric current (under constant stress) was recorded with a computer controlled Keithley 6517 electrometer, crossing up and down the Curie point. A reverse external electric field was applied on doped materials during heating, crossing up the Curie point. It is shown that the pyroelectric coefficient can be increased about four times at room temperature under un optimized DC electric field applied on the pyroelectric wafer.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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