OPTIMIZATION OF THE PYROELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT OF POLYSILOXANE AMINE SUPERLATTICES/

Authors
CAPAN R BATTY SV RICHARDSON T LACEY D HOLDER SJ MAJID WHA
Citation
R. Capan et al., OPTIMIZATION OF THE PYROELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT OF POLYSILOXANE AMINE SUPERLATTICES/, Thin solid films, 285, 1996, pp. 915-918
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied","Material Science","Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
Thin solid films → ACNP
ISSN journal
00406090
Volume
285
Year of publication
1996
Pages
915 - 918
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-6090(1996)285:<915:OOTPFO>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Alternate-layer Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films containing pendant side-c hain polysiloxanes and eicosylamine have been shown to possess an exce ptionally high pyroelectric coefficient (similar to 14 mu C m(-2) K-1) . This study details the optimisation procedure adopted in order to ac hieve such high thermal sensitivity. The dependence of the pyroelectri c activity on the number of deposited monolayers and cadmium ion conte nt are described. The figure of merit for the best LB pyroelectric sen sors prepared in this work is high as 80% of the value of poly(vinylid enedifluoride).