Multiple polarization mechanisms across the ferroelectric phase transition of the tetragonal tungsten-bronze Sr.sub.0.35./sub.Ba.sub.0.69./sub.Nb.sub.2./sub.O.sub.6.04./sub

0499771 - FZÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Buixaderas, Elena - Kempa, Martin - Bovtun, Viktor - Kadlec, Christelle - Savinov, Maxim - Borodavka, Fedir - Vaněk, Přemysl - Steciuk, Gwladys - Palatinus, Lukáš - Dec, J.
Multiple polarization mechanisms across the ferroelectric phase transition of the tetragonal tungsten-bronze Sr_0.35Ba_0.69Nb₂O_6.04
Physical Review Materials. Roč. 2, č. 12 (2018), s. 1-12, č. článku 124402. ISSN 2475-9953. E-ISSN 2475-9953
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA16-09142S
Grant - others:OP VVV - SOLID21(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000760
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : broad-band dielectric spectroscopy * phonons * tetragonal tungsten-bronzes * ferroelectricity
OECD category: Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)
Impact factor: 2.926, year: 2018

The broadband dielectric response of the uniaxial ferroelectric strontium barium niobate with 35% Sr has been studied from 1 kHz to 30 THz along the polar c axis using high-frequency and low-frequency dielectric spectroscopies, time-domain terahertz spectroscopy, and far-infrared reflectivity, in the wide temperature interval 20–600 K. The mechanisms that contribute to the ferroelectric phase transition and to the dielectric anomaly in this material are the softening of an anharmonic excitation in the THz range related to cation hopping and the slowing down of a relaxation in the GHz range, which saturates below TC near 1 MHz. In the ferroelectric phase, a relaxation, related to domain-wall dynamics, appears in the sub-GHz range and hardens on cooling up to 10 GHz. The ferroelectric-paraelectric transition, investigated by electron diffraction, has been assessed to the appearance of a supplementary mirror plane perpendicular to the polar axis.
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