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Self-Accommodation of Ionic Size-Effect Atomic Displacements in Antiferroelectric Order in Relaxor Lead Scandium Niobate

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
;  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Neutron Scattering Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 106-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106 (Japan)
  2. Materials Design and Characterization Laboratories, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8666 (Japan)
  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (United States)
Local antiferroelectric order of lattice distortion caused by an ionic size difference has been discovered in relaxor lead scandium niobate, Pb(Sc{sub 1/2}Nb{sub 1/2})O{sub 3} , using an x-ray diffuse scattering technique. This ordering nature is thought to produce a glassy motion of ions in response to an applied electric field. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}
OSTI ID:
700961
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 18 Vol. 82; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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