A non-destructive technique for the determination of spatial charge and polarization distributions in insulating polymers
D K Das-Gupta; J S Hornsby; D K Das-Gupta; Wales Univ., Bangor, UK; J S Hornsby; Wales Univ., Bangor, UK
Журнал:
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Дата:
1990-12-14
Аннотация:
Recently, a laser intensity modulation method (LIMM) has been developed to determine spatial distributions of both polarization and space charge in the bulk of polymeric insulators. Polarization arising from field-induced orientation of dipoles and trapped space charges provides pyroelectric current when a metal-polymer-metal sandwich is heated with a laser beam that is intensity modulated in an appropriate range of frequencies. Present work provides an improved analytical technique to transform the pyroelectric current-frequency data into a spatial distribution of polarization and space charges. Some experimental results with a polar polymer and the associated spatial distribution of polarization are presented in support of the mathematical model.
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