Giant flexoelectricity in polyvinylidene fluoride films

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 375, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 2082-2084

  Baskaran, Sivapalan ^a   Ramachandran, Narayanan ^a   He, Xiangtong ^a   Thiruvannamalai, Sankar ^a   Lee, Ho Joon ^a   Heo, Hyun ^a   Chen, Qin ^b   Fu, John Y ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexoelectricity; Polyvinylidene fluoride

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS;

ANALOGOUS PHENOMENON; ENERGY COUPLINGS; FLEXOELECTRIC COUPLING; FLEXOELECTRIC EFFECTS; FLEXOELECTRICITY; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE FILMS; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79955663564     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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