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Title: Glassy Phenomena and Precursors in the Lattice Dynamics

Abstract

Broad classes of functional materials exhibit glass-like phenomena originating with the frustration of a soft phonon driven phase transition, including relaxor ferroelectrics and shape memory strain glasses. While the soft phonon mechanism is mostly understood, how this mechanism becomes frustrated in the presence of disorder remains intensely debated. A common structural feature of the frustrated state is nanoscale regions of local ferroic displacements that form well above the ordering temperature; these are called polar nanoregions (PNRs) in relaxor ferroelectrics and ferroelastic nanodomains (FND) in the strain glasses. The existence of these small regions provides a basis to explain glass-like slow relaxation phenomena, which can manifest in the lattice dynamics as phonon over damping. However, this does not explain why the long-range order becomes localized into PNRs or FNDs, or why this happens specifically at the nanoscale. Recent scattering experiments and theories suggest an exciting new way to think about these problems in terms of the physics of lattice vibrations in chemically disordered crystals. More generally, probing the lattice dynamics of these systems sheds new light on the microscopic origin of the nanoregions, glassy behavior, and enhanced functional properties.

Authors:
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  1. ORNL
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1484106
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Book
Resource Relation:
Journal Volume: 275
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Manley, Michael E. Glassy Phenomena and Precursors in the Lattice Dynamics. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96914-5_4.
Manley, Michael E. Glassy Phenomena and Precursors in the Lattice Dynamics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96914-5_4
Manley, Michael E. 2018. "Glassy Phenomena and Precursors in the Lattice Dynamics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96914-5_4.
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title = {Glassy Phenomena and Precursors in the Lattice Dynamics},
author = {Manley, Michael E.},
abstractNote = {Broad classes of functional materials exhibit glass-like phenomena originating with the frustration of a soft phonon driven phase transition, including relaxor ferroelectrics and shape memory strain glasses. While the soft phonon mechanism is mostly understood, how this mechanism becomes frustrated in the presence of disorder remains intensely debated. A common structural feature of the frustrated state is nanoscale regions of local ferroic displacements that form well above the ordering temperature; these are called polar nanoregions (PNRs) in relaxor ferroelectrics and ferroelastic nanodomains (FND) in the strain glasses. The existence of these small regions provides a basis to explain glass-like slow relaxation phenomena, which can manifest in the lattice dynamics as phonon over damping. However, this does not explain why the long-range order becomes localized into PNRs or FNDs, or why this happens specifically at the nanoscale. Recent scattering experiments and theories suggest an exciting new way to think about these problems in terms of the physics of lattice vibrations in chemically disordered crystals. More generally, probing the lattice dynamics of these systems sheds new light on the microscopic origin of the nanoregions, glassy behavior, and enhanced functional properties.},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-96914-5_4},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1484106}, journal = {},
issn = {0933--033X},
number = ,
volume = 275,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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