Electric force microscopy of dielectric heterogeneous polymer blends
Authors:
A.V. Krayev
Affiliation:
a Quantum Polymer Technologies Corp., 3573 Westwind Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA, USA b Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 995616, USA
Abstract:
We report the applicability of Electric Force Microscopy (EFM) for the analysis of thin films of dielectric heterogeneous polymer blends constituted of polymers with both close and significantly different dielectric constants and offer a simple model that enables quantitative analysis of EFM images of such blends.