hermal analysis-FTIR spectroscopy, TA-FTIR, has been used to characterize

the phase transitions in thin films of poly(ethylene terephthalate) and it has

been shown to have distinct advantages over other TA techniques in particular
it was not so limited in sensitivity. Since the technique measured property,
such as amorphous content or fractional crystallinity directly rather than the
rate of change of the properties with time or temperature, it was not so
restricted in the time scale over which measurements were made. It also had
the advantage of measuring the change in concentration of different functional
groups with temperature and determining the temperature range over which
chain mobility set in and defining the type of molecular groups involved in the
configurational changes.

The change in absorbance and shift in peak posit