Figure 3. Frequency dependence of fatigue.
a) The normalized polarization as a function of the cumulative number of cycles. The amplitude was fixed at 40 V and the frequency was varied from 10 Hz to 100 kHz. At high frequency polarization switching is impeded and therefore the capacitor is fatigue-free. The onset of the degradation is at about 104 cycles. b) Replotted data of normalized polarization as a function of the cumulative time.