To observe pyroelectricity, we can heat a crystal uniformly and observe the change in polarization. Piezoelectricity is found in useful applications such as the production and detection of sound, ...

Thus, piezoelectricity may be a universal property of living tissue, and may play a significant part in several physiological phenomena ...

while the following chapter discusses pyroelectricity and piezoelectricity. The larger part of the text is devoted to ferroelectricity and ferroelectric ceramics, with not only their fundamentals but ...