Soft Modes in the Ferroelectric Semiconductor SbSI

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Antimony sulfo-iodide (SbSI) exhibits strongly-coupled photoconductive, semiconducting, and ferroelectric properties. Until the discovery of the lead-oxide ferroelectric relaxor compounds, SbSI was the strongest known piezoelectric. The structure of SbSI is highly anisotropic, consisting of Sb_2S_2I_2 double chains whose orientation defines the long crystal axis. The chains are held together via van der Waals interactions. Below 292K SbSI undergoes a weak first-order structural phase transition from a paraelectric (orthorhombic D^16_2h) state to a (orthorhombic C^9_2v) ferroelectric state. The compound sublimes above 450 K. We wish to perform neutron scattering measurements on MERLIN at 300K and 400K on a two-crystal composite sample with 0.3 meV energy resolution to study the nature of ferroelectric phase transition and the damping and anharmonicity of the TA and low-lying TO modes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077875
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077875
Provenance
Creator Dr Daniel Patrick Phelan; Dr Chris Stock
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
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 2009-11-11T15:02:48Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-11-23T22:19:10Z