Paraelectric heating and cooling with OH --dipoles in alkali halides (original) (raw)

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Abstract

It is quantitatively demonstrated, that adiabatic polarization and depolarization of OH --dipoles in KCl can be used for paraelectric heating and cooling at low temperatures. A reversible temperature change was measured which depends on T -4 and E 2 in complete agreement with theory. A variation in therise-and decay-time of the electric field shows that the dipole relaxation time is smaller than 10 -7 sec.

Publication:

Solid State Communications

Pub Date:

February 1965

DOI:

10.1016/0038-1098(65)90060-8

Bibcode:

1965SSCom...3...31K