Yomery, Tumerkan and alumnus Dr. Misirlioglu (Sabanci Univ) computed the dielectric and pyroelectric properties of ferroelectric films with linear dielectric buffer layers. The calculations show that the dielectric and pyroelectric properties of such multilayers can be increased by the presence of the buffer compared to ferroelectric monolayers. The findings of this paper suggest that the performance of pyroelectric based energy conversion devices (thermal to electric and electric to thermal) could benefit from having interposed dielectric buffer layers between electrodes.
