A researcher who coauthored pyroelectric generator experiments using zinc oxide nanowire arrays. Changing temperature with time changes the material's spontaneous polarization, producing an electrical response. The work explored energy conversion when the whole environment warms or cools, a situation distinct from maintaining a spatial temperature difference across a thermoelectric generator.[ref]
Pyroelectric nanogenerators for harvesting thermoelectric energy by Ya Yang and others. Abstract: time-dependent temperature variation, ZnO nanowires and polarization-driven charge separation
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