Confinement effect on coercive field in relaxor terpolymer nanowires

  • B. L. Liu
  • , B. B. Tian
  • , J. L. Sun*
  • , Y. Liu
  • , J. L. Wang
  • , Sh Sun
  • , X. J. Meng
  • , J. H. Chu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The confinement effect on the coercive field in relaxor ferroelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene)[P(VDF-TrFE-CFE)] terpolymer nanowires with different diameters ranging from 30 to 170 nm was studied using piezoelectric force microscope. It was found that the coercive field increases significantly as the diameter of terpolymer nanowires decreases. The results can be explained by the conversion of molecule conformation from T 3 G to T m>4 in the terpolymer nanowires, which is supported by Fourier transform infrared spectroscope.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)473-476
Number of pages4
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume355
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Nov 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Confinement effect
  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscope
  • P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) nanowires

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