Electric field dependent local structure of
- Univ. of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
The in situ x-ray pair-distribution function (PDF) characterization technique has been used to study the behavior of (KxNa1–x)0.5Bi0.5TiO3, as a function of electric field. As opposed to conventional x-ray Bragg diffraction techniques, PDF is sensitive to local atomic displacements, detecting local structural changes at the angstrom to nanometer scale. Several field-dependent ordering mechanisms can be observed in x = 0.15, 0.18 and at the morphotropic phase boundary composition x = 0.20. X-ray total scattering shows suppression of diffuse scattering with increasing electric-field amplitude, indicative of an increase in structural ordering. Analysis of PDF peaks in the 3–4-Å range shows ordering of Bi-Ti distances parallel to the applied electric field, illustrated by peak amplitude redistribution parallel and perpendicular to the electric-field vector. A transition from < 110 > to < 112 >-type off-center displacements of Bi relative to the neighboring Ti atoms is observable with increasing x. Analysis of PDF peak shift with electric field shows the effects of Bi-Ti redistribution and onset of piezoelectric lattice strain. Furthermore, the combination of these field-induced ordering mechanisms is consistent with local redistribution of Bi-Ti distances associated with domain reorientation and an overall increase in order of atomic displacements.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1376340
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1373428
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 1; ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Time-of-flight neutron total scattering with applied electric fields: Ex situ and in situ studies of ferroelectric materials
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