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Modification of Mechanical and Electromechanical Resonances of Cellular Ferroelectret Films Depending on the External Load

cellular polymers
ferroelectrets
thickness resonances
piezoelectric polymers
ultrasonic transduction
Julio Quirce Aguilar and Tomás Gómez Álvarez-Arenas
Polymers 2021, 13(19), 3239
https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13193239

Ferroelectret films are cellular polymers with electrically charged pores that exhibit piezoelectric response. Among other applications, ferroelectret films have been widely used as active elements in air-coupled ultrasonic transducers. More recently, they have also been tested in water immersion. They show a promising wide frequency band response, but a poor sensitivity produced by the disappearance of the electromechanical resonances. This paper studies in detail the modification of FE films response when put into water immersion, both the mechanical and the electromechanical responses (the latter in transmission and reception modes). The lack of electromechanical thickness resonances when the films are put into water is explained as the result of the different profile of the modification of the polarization vector along the film thickness imposed by the large mechanical load produced by the water. This different electromechanical response can also be the reason for the subtle modification of the mechanical thickness resonances that is also observed and analyzed.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under Grant DPI2016-78876-R (AEI/FEDER, UE).

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