Title: thermally stimulated current
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - thermally stimulated current
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.12314
Status: current

Definition
Electrical current observed during heating and caused by the thermally initiated relaxation of the frozen-in electrical polarization of a sample.

Note
By extension, the same name and abbreviation (TSC) are given to the thermal analysis technique based on the measurement of this current.

Related Term
- thermally stimulated depolarization: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12315

Source
- PAC, 2014, 86, 545. 'ICTAC nomenclature of thermal analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2014)' on page 550 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2012-0609)

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Citation: Citation: 'thermally stimulated current' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.12314
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