Tailoring of ferroelectric properties of copolymer P(VDF-TrFE) by incorporation of ceramic inclusions in the polymer matrix is promising for advanced applications in sensorics. We have observed experimentally that in composites of P(VDF-TrFE) with barium-doped lead zirconate titanate (BPZT), the remanent polarization increases, while the coercive field substantially decreases in comparison with the pure polymer samples. Results of simulation in framework of the modified Weiss model have shown that the changes of the hysteresis loops characteristics are due to increase of the dielectric susceptibility of the composite as compared to pure PVDF-TrFE. This originates from the strong dispersion of the mean field constant α, which describes the feedback of the polarization on the electric field at the location of the dipoles and is closely related with the local increase of composite susceptibility in the vicinity the BPZT inclusions. This phenomenon effectively becomes macro-scale due to the long-range nature of the inhomogeneous elastic and electric fields occurring at the interfaces between the matrix and inclusions.

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