• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.470-473
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• 2001

In this study, 70/30 mol% P(VDF-TrFE) copolymer thin films were prepared by physical vapor deposition, and dielectric properties with frequency were investigated. From results of TA(Thermal Analysis), the Curie transition temperature and melting temperature were observed at 118.8$^{\circ}C$ and 146$^{\circ}C$, respectively. Therefore, while thin films were prepared, the substrate temperature was varied from 30$^{\circ}C$ to 90$^{\circ}C$. The dielectric constant decreased with increasing frequency. At measuring frequency of 1kHz, the relative dielectric constant increased from 3.643 to 23.998 with increasing substrate temperature from 30$^{\circ}C$ to 90$^{\circ}C$. As a result of dielectric loss factor, ${\alpha}$-relaxation and ${\beta}$-relaxation were observed near at 100Hz and 1MHz, respectively. And the magnitude of ${\alpha}$-relaxation decreased and that of ${\beta}$-relaxation increased with increasing substrate temperature.

• Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.237-237
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• 2006

P(VDF/TrFE(72/28) ultrathin films were used in the fabrication of Metal-Ferroelectric polymer-Metal (MFM) single bit device with special emphasis on uniform film surface, faster dipole switching time under applied external field and longer memory retention time. AFM and FTIR-GIRAS were complementary in analyzing surface crystalline morphology and the resultant change in chain orientation with varying thermal history. DC-EFM technique was used to 'write-read-erase' the data on the memory bit in a much faster time than P-E studies. The results obtained from this study will enable us to have a good understanding of the ferroelectric and piezoelectric behavior of P(VDF/TrFE)(72/28) thin films suitable for high density data storage applications.

• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.126-131
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• 2017

For structural health monitoring of a complex shaped structure a new sensor that can compensate for the drawbacks of the current sensors such as brittleness is needed and the sensor should be highly flexible and durable. In this study a textile sensor made of polyvinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene (PVDF-TrFE) which is a type of electroactive polymer was fabricated. And the textile sensors were applied to a complex shaped structure (an egg-box panel made of carbon/epoxy composite) for checking their feasibility of structural health monitoring. To correlate the collapse response with failure mechanisms of the structure the multiply-interrupted compressive test was carried out. During the test, the textile sensors succeeded to prove their applicability for damage detection (crack initiation) by generating electric voltages (0.05 V-0.25 V) in the real time.

• KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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• v.12C no.4
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• pp.225-228
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• 2002

The pyroelectric sensor of P(VDF/TrFE) film as sensing materials has been fabricated and evaluated with another commercial pyroelectric sensor using ceramic materials for sensing, The device was mounted in TO-5 housing to detect infrared light of a 5.5~14 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ wavelength. The NEP(noise equivalent power) and specific detectivity D* of the device were 2.13$\times$10$^{-8}$ W and 9.37 10$^{6}$ cm/W under emission energy of 13 ㎼/$\textrm{cm}^2$, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.227-236
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• 1994

The characteristics of the P(VDF-TrFE) acoustic microscope transducer were evaluated theoretically and experimentally by comparison with those of the PVDF and the ZnO acoustic microscope transducers. It was found that its insertion loss was about 5dB lower than that of the PVDF and about 13$\textbf{dB}$ higher than that of the ZnO. And its relative bandwidth was 20% which could produce the effective acoustic pulse waves having about 4 periods duration into water. Another finding was that the effective horizontal focusing resolution and the focal depth were $120\mu m and $1.5mm$, respectively.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.84-87
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• 2020

The properties of ultra-thin two-dimensional (2D) organic ferroelectric Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films of the poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] were investigated to find possible applicability in flexible and wearable electronics applications. In the C-V characteristics of the MFM capacitor of 2-monolayer of 5 nm films, a butterfly hysteresis curve due to the ferroelectricity of P(VDF-TrFE) was confirmed. Typical residual polarization value was measured at 2μC/㎠. When the MFM capacitor with ultra-thin ferroelectric film was measured by applying a 10 Hz bipolar pulse, it was shown that 65% of the initial polarization value in 105 cycles deteriorated the polarization. The leakage current density of the 2-monolayer film was maintained at about 5 × 10-8 A/㎠ for the case at a 5MV/cm electric field. The resistivity of the 2-monolayer film in the case at an electric field at 5 MV/cm was more than 2.35 × 1013 Ω·cm.

• Advances in nano research
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.329-334
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• 2023

Organic ferroelectric material found vast application in a verity of engineering and health technology fields. In the present study, we investigated the application of the deformable organic ferroelectric in motion measurement and improving performance in tennis players. Flexible ferroelectric material P(VDF-TrFE) could be used in wearable motion sensors in tennis player transferring velocity and acceleration data to collecting devises for analyzing the best pose and movements in tennis players to achieve best performances in terms of hitting ball and movement across the tennis court. In doing so, ferroelectric-based wearable sensors are used in four different locations on the player body to analyze the movement and also a sensor on the tennis ball to record the velocity and acceleration. In addition, poses of tennis players were analyzed to find out the best pose to achieve best acceleration and movement. The results indicated that organic ferroelectric-based sensors could be used effectively in sensing motion of tennis player which could be utilized in the optimization of posing and ball hitting in the real games.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.1631-1633
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• 2000

A study was carried out on the effect of VDF mol%, on the phase transition presented by P(VDF/TrFE) copolymer cast from dimethylformamide(DMF) solution with molar ratios 70/30 and 80/20. The results from dielectric spectrum and differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) showed that the phase transitions from ferroelectric to paraelectric phase(Curie transition) were observed The Curie point slightly has shifted to high temperature with increasing in VDF mol%, however, the melting point has shifted to low temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.207-210
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• 2002

PVDF는 측쇄에 C=O기를 갖는 고분자인 PMMA와 PVAc와의 블렌드 및 주쇄에 C=O기를 갖는 poly(1,4-butylene adipate) (PBA)와의 블렌드에서 PVDF의 융점보다 상당히 높은 온도에서 LCST거동을 보이고 있음이 알려져 있다. 그런데 PVDF/PMMA와 PVDF/PVAC 블렌드계에서는 LCST가 고분자의 열분해온도와 유사하여 LCST거동을 실험적으로 관찰하기 어려웠다. 그런데 PVDF/PBA 블렌드계에서는 실험적으로 측정할 수 있을 정도로 LCST가 낮아지긴 하였지만 PBA의 열분해를 완전히 배제하기엔 아직도 높은 온도이다.[1] (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.523-546
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• 2022

Morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), which is a special boundary that separates two or multiple different phases in the phase diagram of some ferroelectric ceramics, is an important concept in identifying physics that includes piezoelectric responses. MPB, which had not been discovered in organic materials until recently, was discovered in poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene (P(VDF-TrFE)), resulting from a molecular approach. The piezoelectric coefficient of P(VDF-TrFE) in this MPB region was achieved up to -63.5 pC N^-1, which is about two times as large as the conventional value of -30 pC N^-1 of P(VDF-TrFE). An order-disorder arrangement greatly affects the rise of the piezoelectric effect and the ferroelectric, paraelectric and relaxor ferroelectric of P(VDF-TrFE), so the arrangement and shape of the polymer chain is important. In this review, we investigate the origin of negative longitudinal piezoelectric coefficients of piezoelectric polymers, which is definitely opposite to those of common piezoelectric ceramics. In addition to the mainly discussed issue about MPB behaviors of ferroelectric polymers, we also introduce the consideration about polymer chirality resulting in relaxor ferroelectric properties. When the physics of ferroelectric polymers is unveiled, we can improve the piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties of ferroelectric polymers and contribute to the development of next-generation sensor, energy, transducer and actuator applications.