@phdthesis{Kremmer2007,
  author    = {Kremmer, Alexander},
  title     = {Untersuchungen der Struktur von Polyamid 11 - Filmen und ihres Einflusses auf deren piezo- und ferroelektrische Eigenschaften},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  pages     = {100 Bl. : Ill., : graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2007},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{FruebingKremmerGerhardetal.2006,
  author    = {Fr{\"u}bing, Peter and Kremmer, Alexander and Gerhard, Reimund and Spanoudaki, Anna and Pissis, Polycarpos},
  title     = {Relaxation processes at the glass transition in polyamide 11: From rigidity to viscoelasticity},
  series = {The journal of chemical physics : bridges a gap between journals of physics and journals of chemistr},
  volume    = {125},
  journal   = {The journal of chemical physics : bridges a gap between journals of physics and journals of chemistr},
  number    = {12},
  publisher = {American Institute of Physics},
  address   = {Melville},
  issn      = {0021-9606},
  doi       = {10.1063/1.2360266},
  pages     = {8},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Relaxation processes associated with the glass transition in nonferroelectric and ferroelectric polyamide (PA) 11 are investigated by means of differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic mechanical analysis, and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) in order to obtain information about the molecular mobility within the amorphous phase. In particular, the effects of melt quenching, cold drawing, and annealing just below the melting region are studied with respect to potential possibilities and limitations for improving the piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties of PA 11. A relaxation map is obtained from DRS that shows especially the crossover region where the cooperative alpha relaxation and the local beta relaxation merge into a single high-temperature process. No fundamental difference between quenched, cold-drawn, and annealed films is found, though in the cold-drawn (ferroelectric) film the alpha relaxation is suppressed and slowed down, but it is at least partly recovered by subsequent annealing. It is concluded that there exists an amorphous phase in all structures, even in the cold-drawn film. The amorphous phase can be more rigid or more viscoelastic depending on preparation. Cold drawing not only leads to crystallization in a ferroelectric form but also to higher rigidity of the remaining amorphous phase. Annealing just below the melting region after cold drawing causes a stronger phase separation between the crystalline phase and a more viscoelastic amorphous phase.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FruebingKremmerGerhardetal.2006,
  author    = {Fr{\"u}bing, Peter and Kremmer, Alexander and Gerhard, Reimund and Spannoudaki, Anna and Pissis, Polycarpos},
  title     = {Relaxation processes at the glass transition in polyamide 11 : From rigidity to viscoelasticity},
  issn      = {0021-9606},
  doi       = {10.1063/1.2360266},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FruebingKremmerNeumannetal.2004,
  author    = {Fr{\"u}bing, Peter and Kremmer, Alexander and Neumann, Werner and Gerhard, Reimund and Guy, I. L.},
  title     = {Dielectric relaxation in piezo-, pyro- and ferroelectric polyamide 11},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {Ferroelectric polyamide 11 films were prepared by melt-quenching, cold-drawing and electrical poling. Their ferroelectricity was studied by means of dielectric-hysteresis measurements. A remnant polarisation of up to 35 mC/m(2) and a coercive field of 75 MV/m were obtained. The piezoelectric d(33) coefficient and the pyroelectric coefficient of the films are reduced by annealing just below the melting region, but remain at about 3 pC/N and 8 muC/(m(2)K), respectively, during further heat treatment. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) and thermally stimulated depolarisation (TSD) were applied for investigating the conformational changes induced by melt-quenching, cold-drawing and annealing. The results indicate that the cold-drawn film mainly consists of a rigid amorphous phase which exhibits considerably lower conductivity, no glass transition and consequently no dielectric a relaxation. Instead, an a, relaxation is found, which is related to chain motions in regions of the rigid amorphous phase where the amide-group dipoles are not perfectly ordered. Annealing removes imperfectly ordered structures, but does not affect the ferroelectric polarisation. Therefore, it may be concluded that essentially the a, relaxation causes the thermally non-stable part of the piezo- and pyroelectricity in polyamide 11},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KremmerGanserPissisetal.2003,
  author    = {Kremmer, Alexander and Ganser, J. and Pissis, Polycarpos and Gerhard, Reimund},
  title     = {Dielectric relaxation and resonance spectra of ferroelectric polyamide 11},
  isbn      = {0-7803-7560-2},
  year      = {2003},
  language  = {en}
}