Electrical-driven delamination of flexible piezoelectric system and its applications in surface energy testing
Abstract In the present work, a novel experiment for flexible piezoelectric system was introduced. The flexible piezoelectric film was spontaneously contact with the soft substrate conformably. And after driven by pure electrical load, the delamination between the film-substrate systems can be observed visually. By thoroughly analyses and eliminating the influence of gravity, the “force” that prevents the delamination points to the effect of surface energy. Apparently, the deformation of the flexible film is quite small, linear constitutive model still dominates the mechanics of the system in this scenario. Moreover, different from traditional piezoelectric system, the Maxwell stress cannot be neglected in current experiment. A simple mechanics model is derived in current work to reveal the mechanism behind the experiment.