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Effect of thermal annealing on ferroelectric domain structures in poly(vinylidene-fluoride-trifluorethylene) Langmuir-Blodgett thin films
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| Author | Xiao, Zhiyong Hamblin, James Poddar, Shashi Ducharme, Stephen Paruch, Patrycja |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | We report a piezo-response force microscopy study of the effect of thermal annealing on ferroelectric domain structures in 6 to 20 monolayer (11 to 36 nm) polycrystalline poly(vinylidene-fluoride-trifluorethylene) thin films prepared using the Langmuir-Blodgett approach. Stripe-shape domains have been created at room temperature and subjected to thermal annealing at progressively higher temperatures up to the ferroelectric Curie temperature TC of approximately 110 °C. The static configuration of the domain walls exhibits no appreciable temperature dependence after thermal annealing, with the domain-wall roughness exponent ζ ranging from 0.4 to 0.5. Above 80 °C, we observed spontaneous polarization reversal at randomly scattered local sites in both polarization states. The number of domain nucleation centers increases rapidly as a function of temperature. We compared the thermally driven domain formation in ferroelectric polymers with those observed in ferroelectric oxides and attributed the difference to ... |
| Starting Page | 066819 |
| Ending Page | 066819 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.4891396 |
| Volume Number | 116 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1094&context=physicsducharme |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4891396 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |