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Study of Dielectric Behavior and Charge Conduction Mechanism of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) (PVA)-Copper (Cu) and Gold (Au) Nanocomposites as a Bio-resorbable Material for Organic Electronics

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Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) embedded with varying concentrations of chemically synthesized copper (Cu) and gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared using ex situ sol–gel casting method. The addition of almost the same concentration of CuNPs in PVA improves the conducting properties, while that of AuNPs improves the dielectric nature of composite films. It has been found that addition of AuNPs up to ∼0.4 wt.% concentration enhaneces the capacitive nature due to the formation of small Coulomb tunneling knots as internal capacitors. The dielectric studies suggest the Maxwell–Wagner interfacial polarization as the dominant dielectric relaxation process, whereas the I–V characteristics indicate bulk limited Poole–Frenkel emission at high voltages as the dominant charge transport mechanism operating at room temperature in all specimens. These novel features lead to the conclusion that addition of a small quantity of metal nanoparticles can help tune the properties of PVA for desired applications in bio-compatible polymer-based organic electronic devices.

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    Suman Mahendia, Rishi Pal Chahal & Shyam Kumar

  2. Department of Physics, ARSD College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 110021, India

    Parveen Kumar Goyal

  3. Department of Physics, S. A. Jain College, Ambala, Haryana, 134002, India

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Mahendia, S., Goyal, P.K., Tomar, .K. et al. Study of Dielectric Behavior and Charge Conduction Mechanism of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) (PVA)-Copper (Cu) and Gold (Au) Nanocomposites as a Bio-resorbable Material for Organic Electronics. J. Electron. Mater. 45, 5418–5426 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-016-4677-0

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