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So my question is this: Would Pyroelectric Effects become more pronounced if a polymer sheet was, instead of 1 cm thick, but rather, the thickness of a single polymer chain. For example, say the 1 cm thick pyroelectric polymer was heated. Since it is many chains thick, it would look something...

In a nuclear reactor, what kind of energy is produced when the radioactive isotopes go through fission? How much of it is in the form of electromagnetic waves? Are the waves mostly in the UV and Gamma Ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum?

But then why aren't all piezoelectric crystals pyroelectric crystals? Also, pyroelectric crystals only produce an electric field during changes in temperature, and not in the presence of a continued temperature. If piezoelectric crystals could produce an electric field from a temperature, the...

I was thinking. Since phonons are lattice vibrations, and are affected by the temperature of the lattice, can heating a piezocrystal cause it to vibrate and therefore put a small stress on it, causing it's electron density to shift, creating an electric field?