Objective
The production of a new generation of piezoelectric and pyroelectric sensors and transducers was investigated by developing new materials based upon ferroelectric polymers and polymer composites. New techniques such as polymer evaporation onto crystal substrates and oxide crystallite orientation processes in the composites, making use of controlled morphology crystallites were used.
Piezoelectric materials for passive applications have been significantly improved, with greater sensitivity and tailorable properties for specific applications. When compared with material parameters reported in the open literature, European material has the lead. For pyroelectric applications, the 0-3 composite material has been shown to produce very high output, and for specific implementations, is considered as a possible replacement for standard ceramic or polymer materials. Finally, the use of these materials for active applications has been demonstrated, although further development is required.
It seems likely that as a result of this work, composite materials will be used as novel elements in various application areas.
This research programme is designed to produce a new generation of piezoelectric and pyroelectric sensors and transducers by developing new materials based upon ferroelectric polymers and polymer composites. These materials will combine the advantages of polymers (flexibility, large area capability, ease of shaping into a variety of forms and low cost) with the electrical properties which are normally associated with ferroelectric ceramics or single crystals. This will be done by using new techniques such as polymer evaporation onto crystal substrates and oxide crystallite orientation processes in the composites, making use of controlled morphology crystallites. The new materials will be applied to the preparation and testing of acoustic and infrared device demonstrators.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- engineering and technology materials engineering ceramics
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NN12 8EQ Towcester
United Kingdom
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