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Structural impact on piezoelectricity in PVDF and P(VDF-TrFE) thin films

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PVDF and its mostly used copolymer P(VDF-TrFE) are known to possess piezoelectric properties which strongly vary with processing conditions. As the final target of processing ultimately is the structure of the polymer, establishing a more detailed link between structure and properties would ease both the understanding and the practical usage of films piezoelectric activity. In spite of a number of thorough studies exploiting the nature of piezoelectricity in PVDF, available data does not generally exhibit reliable level of consistency and, in some cases, elements of contradiction are observed. Making no claim to be exhaustive in this vast area, we present a survey and discuss on a number of results both available and obtained by ourselves in an effort to assist to better interpretation and further progress in the field.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. M. Rogojerov from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for the infrared experiment and Dr. A. Hurrel from Precision Acoustics Ltd., UK, and for valuable discussion. One of us (V. S.) wishes to thank the University of Nancy for their hospitality during a research visit. This study has been partially supported by the Research Fund of Sofia University under grants NN 21/2011, 146/2012.

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  2. Institut Jean Lamour, UMR CNRS n°7198, Université de Lorraine, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France

    B. Vincent, V. S. Nguyen & D. Rouxel

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Strashilov, V., Alexieva, G., Vincent, B. et al. Structural impact on piezoelectricity in PVDF and P(VDF-TrFE) thin films. Appl. Phys. A 118, 1469–1477 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-014-8911-4

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