“…The thermoelectret technique was typical for early experiments [6][7][8], but has been gradually replaced by poling in a corona [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. It has been claimed that a homogeneous and stable polarization can be obtained by the cycling hysteresis method [18,19], but in many cases residual polarization appeared to be distributed nonuniformly in the thickness direction of the samples [6][7][8][13][14][15][16][17]. In spite of its obvious importance, § Present address and to whom correspondence should be addressed: Prof. Dr S N Fedosov Grupo de Polímeros, Instituto de Fisica de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, C P 369 CEP 13560-970 São Carlos -SP, Brazil.…”