Transições de fase e efeitos de polarização elétrica em copolímeros de (VDF/TrFE). / Phase transition and polarization effect in (VDF/TrFE) copolymers.
AUTOR(ES)
João Mariz Guimarães Neto
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
1991
RESUMO
Piezoelectric and pyroelectric activities of the polyvinylidene fluoride have been intensively studied in the last years, and many practical applications have also been suggested. More recently, besides the detection of its ferroelectric activity, it was verified that the copolymer VDF/TrFE presents a Curie temperature. In the present work we have studied phase transitions on P(VDF/TrFE) with 60/40 and 70/30 molar composition, using thermally stimulated processes. It is already well-known that the copolymer 60/40 undergoes a ferro-to-paraelectric first-order phase transition, though the decay of the remanent polarization with the temperature is not abrupt as the predicted by the phenomenologic theories. So, we developed a model based on a very slow Debye relaxation combined with a parameter which controls the speed of the phase transition. The calculated values of the polarization fitted, with a high accuracy, the experimental values. The 70/30 copolymer undergoes, beside the F-P transition, another phase transition probably between two ferroelectric phases. A model, similar to that developed for the 60/40 copolymer, was also adjusted to the experimental results. From the experimental results we have observed that the electric field used to polarize the samples exerts some influence upon the phase transitions and also upon the space charges absorbed from the environment. For the latter case a simplified model was developed in attempting to explain isothermal current discharge measurements.
ASSUNTO(S)
tsdc phase transition transição de fase corrente termo estimulada (vdf/trfe) (vdf/trfe)
