Local structure variation of polar nano-regions in ultrahigh piezoelectric relaxor-PbTiO3 materials

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Relaxor ferroelectrics are a class of locally disordered crystals possessing peculiar structure and electrical properties. The solid solution of a relaxor perovskite and PbTiO3 (relaxor-PT) exhibits ultrahigh piezoelectric coefficients and electromechanical coupling factors. In order to fully understand the structural origin of this special class of materials' outstanding properties, we propose to carry out a series of low-temperature neutron total scattering experiments and utilize pair distribution function analysis techniques, aiming to investigate the local structures, especially the local polar directions within the polar nano-regions. We will also verify the evolving of the polar nano-regions with increasing temperature, and link them with the change of the electric properties.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84424757
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84424757
Provenance
Creator Dr Nan Zhang; Dr Fei Li; Professor Mike Glazer; Professor David Keen; Dr Jian Zhuang
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-09T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-13T08:00:00Z