Piezoelectrically generated pressure step technique

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Instead of temperature fields, one can use pressure discontinuities in order to probe charge or polarization distributions in dielectrics. According to the pressure excitation method, one can distinguish three basic configurations (a) the LIPP (laser-induced pressure pulse. Fig. 21) (Sessler et al. 1981) or PWP (pressure wave propagation) technique (Alquie et al. 1981), (b) the piezoelectrically generated pressure step technique (PPS, cf. Fig. 22) (Eisenmenger and Haardt 1982), and (c) the pulsed electroacoustic method (PEA, cf Fig. 23) (Takada et al. 1987). 

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