Dielectric and field-induced piezoelectric responses in electron-irradiated poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymer

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applied Research

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 349-357

  Ma, W ^a   Chou, I ^a   Karaki, T ^a   Cross, L E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0036864310     PISSN: 00318965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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