A model of decrement of residual polarization in vinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene copolymers with repeated polarization reversal

Author

Date, Munehiro ; Kutani, Masayuki ; Sakai, Shigeru

Author_Institution

Inst. of Phys. & Chem. Res., Saitama, Japan

fYear

1996

fDate

25-30 Sep 1996

Firstpage

952

Lastpage

957

Abstract

A kind of ferroelectric polymers, vinylidene fluoride/trifluoroethylene (VDF/TrFE) copolymer is a very competent material for a memory device in which the information is stored as the polarization arisen from dipolar orientation. However the disintegration of device quality, the decrease of residual polarization and/or the shift of the coercive field, with storage repetition is inevitable. Here we present a three nuclear states model for the degradation mechanism with storage repetitions. The agreement of the assumption is proved with the experimental results, the disintegration characteristics with various strength of applied field for VDF/TrFE (VDF 73%) copolymer

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; ferroelectric materials; ferroelectric storage; polymer blends; polymer films; coercive field; dipolar orientation; ferroelectric polymer; memory device; polarization reversal; residual polarization; storage repetition; three nuclear states model; vinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene copolymer; Annealing; Chemicals; Composite materials; Degradation; Electric variables measurement; Ferroelectric materials; Polarization; Polymers; Shape measurement; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrets, 1996. (ISE 9), 9th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2695-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISE.1996.578239

Filename

578239