Ferroelectric transition in a random field: Possible relation to relaxor ferroelectrics

1998 ◽  
Vol 206 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Semenovskaya ◽  
A. G. Khachaturyan
Author(s):  
T. Egami ◽  
H. D. Rosenfeld ◽  
S. Teslic

Relaxor ferroelectrics, such as Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN) or (Pb·88La ·12)(Zr·65Ti·35)O3 (PLZT), show diffuse ferroelectric transition which depends upon frequency of the a.c. field. In spite of their wide use in various applications details of their atomic structure and the mechanism of relaxor ferroelectric transition are not sufficiently understood. While their crystallographic structure is cubic perovskite, ABO3, their thermal factors (apparent amplitude of thermal vibration) is quite large, suggesting local displacive disorder due to heterovalent ion mixing. Electron microscopy suggests nano-scale structural as well as chemical inhomogeneity.We have studied the atomic structure of these solids by pulsed neutron scattering using the atomic pair-distribution analysis. The measurements were made at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) of Argonne National Laboratory. Pulsed neutrons are produced by a pulsed proton beam accelerated to 750 MeV hitting a uranium target at a rate of 30 Hz. Even after moderation by a liquid methane moderator high flux of epithermal neutrons with energies ranging up to few eV’s remain.


2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 20401
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Dul'kin ◽  
Michael Roth

In relaxor (1-x)SrTiO3-xBiFeO3 ferroelectrics ceramics (x = 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4) both intermediate temperatures and Burns temperatures were successfully detected and their behavior were investigated in dependence on an external bias field using an acoustic emission. All these temperatures exhibit a non-trivial behavior, i.e. attain the minima at some threshold fields as a bias field enhances. It is established that the threshold fields decrease as x increases in (1-x)SrTiO3-xBiFeO3, as it previously observed in (1-x)SrTiO3-xBaTiO3 (E. Dul'kin, J. Zhai, M. Roth, Phys. Status Solidi B 252, 2079 (2015)). Based on the data of the threshold fields the mechanisms of arising of random electric fields are discussed and their strengths are compared in both these relaxor ferroelectrics.


2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Kleemann ◽  
J Dec ◽  
P Lehnen ◽  
R Blinc ◽  
B Zalar ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 236 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Stephanovich

Polar Oxides ◽  
2005 ◽  
pp. 275-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Kleemann ◽  
George A. Samara ◽  
Jan Dec

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