Enhanced polarization in melt-quenched and stretched poly(vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene) films

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1088-1095

  Wang, Feipeng ^a   Frübing, Peter ^a   Wirges, Werner ^a   Gerhard, Reimund ^a   Wegener, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ferroelectric polymers; Ferroelectricity; melt quenched polymers; piezoelectricity; Poly(vinylidene fluoride hexafluoropropylene); polyvinylidenefluoride copolymers; PVDF; solution cast polymers; stretched polymer films

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC POLYMERS; HEXAFLUOROPROPYLENE; MELT-QUENCHED POLYMERS; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; PVDF; SOLUTION-CAST POLYMERS; STRETCHED POLYMER FILMS; VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

COPOLYMERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC FILMS; FERROELECTRICITY; FILM PREPARATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PLASTIC FILMS; POLARIZATION; POLYMERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 77955572172     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2010.5539679     Document Type: Article

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