Ferroelectric Polymer Thin Films for Organic Electronics

Figure 7

Schematic of polarization evolution during switching in a uniaxial ferroelectric. (a) Discontinuous nucleation and growth of inverted domains. (b) Continuous, uniform decrease of the polarization magnitude through zero without domain formation. Arrows indicate the orientation and magnitude of polarization [85].

(a) Nucleated mechanism

(b) Continuous mechanism