TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wang, Jingwen
A1  - Rychkov, Dmitry
A1  - Gerhard, Reimund
T1  - Chemical modification with orthophosphoric acid enhances surface-charge stability on polypropylene electrets
T2  - Applied physics letters
N2  - The low surface-charge stability of polypropylene (PP) frequently limits its application as an electret material. In this paper, we demonstrate how the treatment of PP-film surfaces with orthophosphoric acid (H3PO4) enhances their charge stability. To discriminate between the effects of chemical modification and thermal treatment, as-received and annealed PP films are used as reference samples. The electret properties of treated and non-treated PP films are characterized with thermally stimulated discharge (TSD) and isothermal surface-potential decay (ISPD) experiments, from which considerable improvement in thermal and temporal charge stability is observed for samples modified with H3PO4. The half-value temperature (T-1/2) observed on TSD curves of chemically treated PP increases to 131 and 145 degrees C for positive and negative charges, respectively. The enhancement might be attributed to the phosphoric compounds detected on the H3PO4-modified surfaces via attenuated-total-reflection infrared spectroscopy. Deeper surface traps formed at the "foreign" phosphorus-containing structures are able to capture the charges over longer time periods and at higher temperatures, thus leading to significant improvements in the temporal and thermal surface-charge stabilities of PP electrets. Published by AIP Publishing.
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46659
SN  - 0003-6951
SN  - 1077-3118
VL  - 110
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville
ER  -