Influence of dynamical scattering in crystalline poly„vinylidene

Authors

• C.N. Borca, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
• Jaewu Choi, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Shireen Adenwalla, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Stephen Ducharme, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
• Peter A. Dowben, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Lee Robertson, High Flux Isotope Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• V.M. Fridkin, Institute of Crystallography, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• S.P. Palto, Institute of Crystallography, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Rus
• N. Petukhova, Institute of Crystallography, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Rus

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1-18-1999

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics. Applied Physics Letters 74, 347-349 (1999). ©1999 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. Journal home page = http://jap.aip.org/jap/.

Abstract

The effective Debye temperature of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) copolymers was measured using photoemission and neutron diffraction techniques. An effective Debye temperature of 53611K is obtained from the photoemission data and 6963.5K from neutron diffraction measurements. This effective Debye temperature is a consequence of the temperature-dependent dynamic motions perpendicular to the surface of these crystalline polymer films.