Comparative Study on the Alternating Current Conduction and Dielectric Properties of Plasma Polymerized Monolayer and Bilayer Thin Films

Mohammad Mostofa Kamal; Abu Hashan Bhuiyan

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Comparative Study on the Alternating Current Conduction and Dielectric Properties of Plasma Polymerized Monolayer and Bilayer Thin Films

Mohammad Mostofa Kamal, Abu Hashan Bhuiyan

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The alternating current (ac) electrical conduction and dielectric properties of plasma polymerized pyrrole-N,N,3,5 tetramethylaniline (PPPy-PPTMA) bilayer composite thin films and a comparative study of those properties of PPPy monolayer, PPTMA monolayer and PPPy-PPTMA bilayer thin films have been discussed in this article. The monolayer and bilayer composite thin films were deposited by using a parallel plate capacitively coupled glow discharge reactor. To prepare the PPPy-PPTMA bilayer films, pyrrole monomer was used as the mother-material and TMA monomer was deposited in different deposition time ratio after the pyrrole films were formed. To study the ac electrical properties of PPPy-PPTMA bilayer composite thin film of different thicknesses the dielectric constant (ε'), the dielectric loss factor (ε"), and the ac conductivity (σ_ac) were investigated as the function of frequency at room temperature. It was observed that the ε' of bilayer thin films was decreased considerably with the increase of PPTMA content in the bilayer structure because PPTMA thin films has lower dielectric constant than that of the PPPy thin films, which was confirmed in the comparative study. This fact was explained by Maxwell-Wagner two-layered model and it was predicted that the grain size and the grain boundary capacitance were reduced with increasing PPTMA content in the bilayer structure which gives rise to a decrease in dielectric constant. The observed frequency dependence of the ε' was attributed to the dielectric relaxation process and to interfacial or space charge polarization. The peak appearing at a characteristic frequency in the dielectric loss spectra suggested that the charge motion and polymer segmental motion were strongly coupled which indicated the presence of relaxing dipoles in the PPPy-PPTMA bilayer thin films. However, the PPPy-PPTMA bilayer thin films were found to have higher values of ε' but lower values of ε" at any particular frequency for a particular thickness which suggested that they have higher ability to polarize and hold charge and also can store more energy but rate of energy dissipation is lower than that of its components PPPy and PPTMA thin films. The ac conductivity of the bilayer thin film was found to have lower values than those of its component films over whole frequency range. It was predicted that during the formation of bilayer thin films, inhomogeneous and irregular complex polymer-polymer interface might be formed whose disorderness may cause a decrease in the conductivity of those films.

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DOI	10.11648/j.am.20221104.13
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Plasma Polymerization, Bilayer Thin Films, AC Conduction, Dielectric Properties

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Mohammad Mostofa Kamal, Abu Hashan Bhuiyan. Comparative Study on the Alternating Current Conduction and Dielectric Properties of Plasma Polymerized Monolayer and Bilayer Thin Films. Adv Mater. 2022;11(4):94-101. doi: 10.11648/j.am.20221104.13

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Department of Physical Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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