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Semiconductors can have an electric polarization. Such polarization can be induced by an external electric field (Fig. 14.1a). This phenomenon, i.e. that the semiconductor is dielectric, has been discussed already in Sect. 9. In this chapter, we discuss pyroelectricity, i.e. a spontaneous polarization without an external field (Fig. 14.1b), ferroelectricity,1 i.e. pyroelectricity with a hysteresis (Fig. 14.1c) and piezoelectricity, i.e. a polarization due to external stress.
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Grundmann, M. (2010). Polarized Semiconductors. In: The Physics of Semiconductors. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13884-3_14
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