Harnessing Plasticity in an Amine-Borane as a Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Flexible Film

Abstract

We demonstrate that trimethylamine borane can exhibit desirable piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties. The material was shown to be able operate as a flexible film for both thermal sensing, thermal energy conversion and mechanical sensing with high open circuit voltages (>10 V). A piezoelectric coefficient of d₃₃ ≈10-16 pC N^-1 , and pyroelectric coefficient of p≈25.8 μC m^-2 K^-1 were achieved after poling, with high pyroelectric figure of merits for sensing and harvesting, along with a relative permittivity of ${ϵ}_{33}^{\sigma }\approx$ 6.3.

Keywords: energy conversion; flexible films; main group elements; piezoelectricity; pyroelectricity.