Polarization Mechanisms in P(VDF-TrFE) Ferroelectric Thin Films
Abstract
Ferroelectric polymers have amassed tremendous attention due to several attractive properties including high breakdown strength, low dielectric loss, relatively fast charge/discharge rates and greater flexibility than their ceramic counterparts. In order to achieve enhanced energy efficiency in high-energy storage capacitor applications, it is desirable to obtain slim polarization hysteresis loops for ferroelectric polymer films. Here, it has been demonstrated that promotion of large crystallites and γ phase content through thermal annealing provides a cost-effective way to obtain a quasi-linear polarization response in a PVDF co-polymer thin film. The polarization mechanisms underlying a thin hysteresis loop in the thermally annealed film are elucidated using direct experimental insights from in situ synchrotron diffraction with two-dimensional detection. It has been demonstrated that the susceptibility for electric-field-induced structural changes is higher in the defective ferroelectric γ phase than the polar phase β, due to a higher flexibility for accommodation of gauche bond along the carbon chain. In addition, the polymer chains in the γ phase also exhibit a range of different responses depending on their orientations with respect to the electric field. These conclusions are broadly significant as they provide a fundamental basis for rational design of phase assemblages to obtain tailor-made properties inmore »
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[1];
- City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon (Hong Kong)
- Alfred Univ., Alfred, NY (United States)
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
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- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1504464
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physica Status Solidi rrl
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1862-6254
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ferroelectrics; microstructural design; polarization response; polymers; thin films
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Choi, Andrew C., Pramanick, Abhijit, Misture, Scott T., Paterson, Alisa R., Jones, Jacob L., Borkiewicz, Olaf C., and Ren, Yang. Polarization Mechanisms in P(VDF-TrFE) Ferroelectric Thin Films. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/pssr.201800340.
Choi, Andrew C., Pramanick, Abhijit, Misture, Scott T., Paterson, Alisa R., Jones, Jacob L., Borkiewicz, Olaf C., & Ren, Yang. Polarization Mechanisms in P(VDF-TrFE) Ferroelectric Thin Films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201800340
Choi, Andrew C., Pramanick, Abhijit, Misture, Scott T., Paterson, Alisa R., Jones, Jacob L., Borkiewicz, Olaf C., and Ren, Yang. Fri .
"Polarization Mechanisms in P(VDF-TrFE) Ferroelectric Thin Films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201800340. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1504464.
@article{osti_1504464,
title = {Polarization Mechanisms in P(VDF-TrFE) Ferroelectric Thin Films},
author = {Choi, Andrew C. and Pramanick, Abhijit and Misture, Scott T. and Paterson, Alisa R. and Jones, Jacob L. and Borkiewicz, Olaf C. and Ren, Yang},
abstractNote = {Ferroelectric polymers have amassed tremendous attention due to several attractive properties including high breakdown strength, low dielectric loss, relatively fast charge/discharge rates and greater flexibility than their ceramic counterparts. In order to achieve enhanced energy efficiency in high-energy storage capacitor applications, it is desirable to obtain slim polarization hysteresis loops for ferroelectric polymer films. Here, it has been demonstrated that promotion of large crystallites and γ phase content through thermal annealing provides a cost-effective way to obtain a quasi-linear polarization response in a PVDF co-polymer thin film. The polarization mechanisms underlying a thin hysteresis loop in the thermally annealed film are elucidated using direct experimental insights from in situ synchrotron diffraction with two-dimensional detection. It has been demonstrated that the susceptibility for electric-field-induced structural changes is higher in the defective ferroelectric γ phase than the polar phase β, due to a higher flexibility for accommodation of gauche bond along the carbon chain. In addition, the polymer chains in the γ phase also exhibit a range of different responses depending on their orientations with respect to the electric field. These conclusions are broadly significant as they provide a fundamental basis for rational design of phase assemblages to obtain tailor-made properties in ferroelectric polymer films.},
doi = {10.1002/pssr.201800340},
journal = {Physica Status Solidi rrl},
number = 10,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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