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A. F. Butenko

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arXiv2009

Charge Trapping in Ferroelectric Polymers

Experimental results are presented on anomalous behavior of absorption currents in PVDF during the stepwise increase of the voltage applied through a corona. These results, supplemented with the dynamics of the time constant of the electret potential decay are consistent with a hypothesis assuming deep trapping of the charge carriers during the polarization buildup in ferroelectric polymers. Model calculations are made on distribution of the potential energy at the surface of the polarized crystallites proving that additional sites for the charge trapping are created there.

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arXiv2007

Two components of depolarization currents in PVDF caused by relaxation of homo- and heterocharge

The procedure has been developed for extracting homocharge and heterocharge currents from experimentally measured thermally stimulated depolarization currents of corona poled PVDF. Application of different depolarization modes supplemented with the isothermal currents allowed to obtain such parameters of relaxation processes, as activation energies, characteristic frequencies and time constants.

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arXiv2007

Depolarization Currents in Fresh and Aged Corona Poled P(VDF-TFE) Films

Using short circuit and open circuit modifications of the thermally stimulated depolarization current technique, relaxation currents have been measured in corona poled copolymer of vinylidene fluoride with tetrafluoroethylene in samples stored after poling for either 1 day, or 16 month. Two well structured peaks observed in aged samples were attributed to relaxation of electret and ferroelectric components of the remnant polarization. In fresh samples the two components were mixed forming one broad peak. Relaxation of the space charge caused inversion of the current in the open circuit mode both in fresh and in aged samples. Space charge peaks extracted from the total current by appropriate calculations have shown that the trapped charges were more stable than the polarization. It was suggested that both the electret and the ferroelectric components of the remnant polarization were accompanied by either space, or surface charges.

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arXiv2007

Trapping of Compensating Charges in Corona Poled PVDF Films

Experimental evidence is provided on close relation between polarization and space charge in corona poled PVDF films. It is shown that the depolarizing field is compensated by charges trapped in macroscopic transition zones, by which polarized parts of the volume are separated from non-polarized ones. The compensating charges are either injected in the bulk, or created inside due to the thermal emission and then trapped when the ferroelectric polarization in crystallites is formed.

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