Abstract

A uniaxially oriented film of ferroelectric vinylidene fluoride (VDF) oligomer was fabricated by vacuum deposition on a friction-transferred vinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene copolymer; i.e., P(VDF/TrFE), film as a structural template. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy measurements revealed that the ultra thin P(VDF/TrFE) film induced the formation of the ferroelectric form I crystal phase and the uniaxial orientation of what to the VDF oligomer by epitaxial growth. The VDF oligomer/P(VDF/TrFE) films exhibit ferroelectric hysteresis loops with a coercive field and a remanent polarization of 150 MV/m and 77 mC/m2, respectively; however, VDF oligomer films without a structural template showed no ferroelectric properties.

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