LOW-TEMPERATURE LOW-FREQUENCY DIELECTRIC RELAXATIONS IN VDF(81)/TeFE(19) COPOLYMERS

The complex dielectric constants of ferroelectric copolymers VDF(81)/TeFE(19) with dif-ferent crystallinities have been measured over the range of-120- +40℃ and 10^-2-10^-4 Hz, using an improved dielectric relaxation spectrometer. The low-temperature processes of di-electric relaxation show that the frequency spectra of copolymers below room temperature consist of two parts: a low-frequency component which accords with a WLF equation and is ascribed to the micro-Brownian motions of frozen-in segments in the noncrystalline regions, and a high-frequency component which follows an Arrhenius rule and is designated as the local motions of small-scale segments in the crystalline and/or noncrystalline regions. The calculated results indicate that T_g of copolymers is -52℃ and the activation energy of local relaxation is 37.7 kJ/mol.