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  2. Pyroelectricity - Wikipedia

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    Passive infrared sensors are often designed around pyroelectric materials, as the heat of a human or animal from several feet away is enough to generate a voltage. [22] Thermal Sensors: Infrared detectors, fire alarms, gas sensors, and motion sensors utilize high voltage/current responsivity. Lead-based materials (e.g., PMN-PT) excel here due ...

  3. Photopyroelectric - Wikipedia

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    In terms of the pyroelectric detector, it can be used as a sensor to support the system. Due to the unipolar axis characteristics of the pyroelectric crystal, it is characterized by asymmetry. Polarization due to changes in temperature, the so-called pyroelectric effect, is currently widely used in sensor technology.

  4. Nanogenerator - Wikipedia

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    The angles marked in the diagrams represent the degrees to which the dipole would oscillate as driven by statistical thermal fluctuations. The working principle of a pyroelectric nanogenerator can be explained by the primary pyroelectric effect and the secondary pyroelectric effect.

  5. Occupancy sensor - Wikipedia

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    Occupancy sensor types include: PIR sensors, which work on heat difference detection, measuring infrared radiation.Inside the device is a pyroelectric sensor which can detect the sudden presence of objects (such as humans) who radiate a temperature different from the temperature of the background, such as the room temperature of a wall.

  6. Beam splitter - Wikipedia

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    Principle drawing of a reflection beam splitter in a pyroelectric sensor (four optical channels) Reflection beam splitters reflect parts of the incident radiation in different directions. These partial beams show exactly the same intensity. Typically, reflection beam splitters are made of metal and have a broadband spectral characteristic.

  7. Pyrometer - Wikipedia

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    The operational principles of the ratio pyrometers were developed in the 1920s and 1930s, and they were commercially available in 1939. [ 9 ] As the ratio pyrometer came into popular use, it was determined that many materials, of which metals are an example, do not have the same emissivity at two wavelengths. [ 12 ]

  8. Thermopile laser sensor - Wikipedia

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    Figure 2: [8] Working principle of a thermal laser sensor (Adapted from figure 3 with permission) As shown in Fig 2, a thermopile laser sensor consists of several thermocouples connected in series with one junction type (hot junction at temperature T 1) being exposed to an absorption area and the other junction type (cold junction at temperature T 2) being exposed to a heat sink.

  9. Bolometer - Wikipedia

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    It is a grid of vanadium oxide or amorphous silicon heat sensors atop a corresponding grid of silicon. Infrared radiation from a specific range of wavelengths strikes the vanadium oxide or amorphous silicon, and changes its electrical resistance. This resistance change is measured and processed into temperatures which can be represented ...