What risk increases when cooling a piezoelectric quartz crystal below its Curie temperature during high-frequency acoustic wave generation?

💡 Explanation

Ferroelectric domain switching risk increases because cooling stresses the crystal lattice, enhancing dipole alignment causing spontaneous polarization via the piezoelectric effect; therefore, domains can reorient readily rather than remain stable which impacts frequency.

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