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H. E Gallantree and E M. QuiUiam. Polarizatioo poly(vinylidenc fluoride)—Its application to pyroelectric and piezoelectric devices, Marconi Rev. 39 189 (1976). 

This area does not address the wide variety of devices that feature ferroelectric polymers as detectors based on their inherent pyroelectric effect. Instead, the focus of this chapter is to present recent (within the last decade) poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) transducer applications that feature their fenoelectiic effect as the preferred active material property. 

Poly(vinylidene fluoride) has good tensile and impact strengths. Typical values for some properties are given in Table 7.1. The polymer has unusual piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties which have resulted in its use in solid state switching devices. 

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