The effects of surface plasma treatment on dielectric properties of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film

Author(s):  
P.J. Cygan ◽  
T.R. Jow
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parrydeep Kaur Sachdeva ◽  
Shuchi Gupta ◽  
Chandan Bera

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 585
Author(s):  
Ariel Ma ◽  
Jian Yu ◽  
William Uspal

Natural evaporation has recently come under consideration as a viable source of renewable energy. Demonstrations of the validity of the concept have been reported for devices incorporating carbon-based nanocomposite materials. In this study, we investigated the possibility of using polymer thin films to generate electricity from natural evaporation. We considered a polymeric system based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). Porous PVDF films were created by incorporating a variety of nanocomposite materials into the polymer structure through a simple mixing procedure. Three nanocomposite materials were considered: carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, and silica. The evaporation-induced electricity generation was confirmed experimentally under various ambient conditions. Among the nanocomposite materials considered, mesoporous silica (SBA-15) was found to outperform the other two materials in terms of open-circuit voltage, and graphene oxide generated the highest short-circuit current. It was found that the nanocomposite material content in the PVDF film plays an important role: on the one hand, if particles are too few in number, the number of channels will be insufficient to support a strong capillary flow; on the other hand, an excessive number of particles will suppress the flow due to excessive water absorption underneath the surface. We show that the device can be modeled as a simple circuit powered by a current source with excellent agreement between the theoretical predictions and experimental data.


2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 1135-1138
Author(s):  
Chao Zhe Ma ◽  
Jin Song Du ◽  
Yi Yang Liu

At present, sub-micro-Newton (sub-μN) micro-force in micro-assembly and micro-manipulation is not able to be measured reliably. The piezoelectric micro-force sensors offer a lot of advantages for MEMS applications such as low power dissipation, high sensitivity, and easily integrated with piezoelectric micro-actuators. In spite of many advantages above, the research efforts are relatively limited compared to piezoresistive micro-force sensors. In this paper, Sensitive component is polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and the research object is micro-force sensor based on PVDF film. Moreover, the model of micro-force and sensor’s output voltage is built up, signal processing circuit is designed, and a novel calibration method of micro-force sensor is designed to reliably measure force in the range of sub-μN. The experimental results show the PVDF sensor is designed in this paper with sub-μN resolution.


2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Yang Chang ◽  
Cheng-Hung Hsu

The electromechanical characteristics of PVDF are investigated, including the crystallization, frequency responses, hysteresis, leakage currents, current-voltage characteristics, and fatigue characteristics using X-ray diffraction and an electrometer. Results show that the frequency band of PVDF increases with increasing resistive load and capacitance. The hysteresis area of ΔH slightly increases with increasing input voltage. The magnitude of the current values increases with decreasing delay time at a given drive voltage. PVDF film induced larger degradation when the number of stress cycles was increased to about 105 cumulative cycles.


2014 ◽  
Vol 933 ◽  
pp. 548-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Qiang Wang ◽  
Ying Lin Xiao

Polyvinylidene Fluoride (referred to as PVDF) piezoelectric film is a new type of polymer piezoelectric materials. Because of its light weight, thin thickness, high sensitivity, high mechanical strength, wide frequency response range and other advantages, it has the application prospect in the explosion field. In this article, film sensors were made based on the PVDF piezoelectric film, and its role in the sensors is the sensitive element. The result of the low dynamic pressure calibration tests showed that it has a very high linear degree and good reproducibility, so that it can be used for low-pressure section of the shock wave pressure measurement.


2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sokhanvar ◽  
A. Zabihollah ◽  
R. Sedaghati

The applications of the piezoelectric Polyvinylidene Fluoride, PVDF, integrated with the beams, plates, and membranes, performing as sensor, actuator or combination have been received considerable attention in the recent years. However, not much work has been reported on the influence of the PVDF’s orthotropic behavior, particularly the effect of the orientation of the PVDF film in the host structure, on the performance of the system. In the present study, the effect of the piezoelectric PVDF film orientation on the output voltage, the actuation force, and the dynamic response of the integrated structures has been studied using the finite element method. In the sensory mode, the difference between the output voltages obtained from the biaxial piezoelectric PVDF film and uniaxial one, when the orientation of the film varies from 0 to 90 degree, is investigated. In each case the proportion contributions of the involved piezoelectric coefficients including d31, d32 and are studied. Alternatively, in the actuation mode, the effect of orthotropic behavior of the actuator on the nodal displacements has been taken into consideration. The influence of the material orthotropic property of the transducer on the free undamped response of the system is also investigated. Moreover an effective Young’s modulus and effective Poisson ratio for the uniaxial PVDF film has been introduced using an optimization procedure to minimize the error caused by isotropic assumption of uniaxial PVDF film.


2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Mahato ◽  
A. Seal ◽  
S. Garain ◽  
S. Sen

AbstractThe effect of different fabrication techniques on the formation of electroactive β-phase polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) has been investigated. Films with varying concentration of PVDF and solvent - dimethyl formamide (DMF) were synthesized by tape casting and solvent casting techniques. The piezoelectric β-phase as well as non polar β-phase were observed for both the tape cast and solvent cast films from X-ray diffraction (XRD) micrographs and Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectra. A maximum percentage (80 %) of β-phase was obtained from FT-IR analysis for a solvent cast PVDF film. The surface morphology of the PVDF films was analyzed by FESEM imaging. The dielectric properties as a function of temperature and frequency and the ferroelectric hysteresis loop as a function of voltage were measured. An enhancement in the value of the dielectric constant and polarization was obtained in solvent cast films.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 94-100
Author(s):  
Chanisa Nawanil ◽  
Wanwilai Vittayakorn ◽  
Jutarat Prachayawarakorn ◽  
Naratip Vittayakorn

2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (6B) ◽  
pp. 5490-5494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kou-Chiang Tsai ◽  
Wen-Fa Wu ◽  
Chuen-Guang Chao ◽  
Jain-Tsai Lee ◽  
Jwo-Lun Hsu

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