Characterization of Polypyrrole Based Novel High Dielectric Materials for Low Frequency Applications
摘要
Neodymium oxide (Nd2O3) embedded in polypyrrole (PPy) with varying compositions were synthesized using the chemical polymerization technique. PPy and PPy/Nd2O3 composites were employed to the several characterization techniques including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and selected area electron diffraction (SAED), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) studies. Room temperature AC conductivity studies were carried out in the frequency range 50 Hz to 5 MHz. PPy/Nd2O3-10 wt% composite exhibited highest conductivity of 2.69 × 10−² Scm− 1 among all the composites and an increase of two orders compared to PPy, which is noteworthy. Cole-Cole plots for the composites exhibited a non-Debye type relaxation. Interestingly, dielectric constant of PPy/Nd2O3-10 wt% composite in the frequency range 1–100 kHz was found to be high ≈ 1000. Also, the low frequency relaxation peaks, low dielectric loss of the composites makes them potential candidates in the design of low frequency operating devices.