Anomalous polarization in the antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase coexistence state in PbZrO3-Bi(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O-3

Vadlamani, Bhaskar Sravan and Lalitha, K and Ranjan, Rajeev (2013) Anomalous polarization in the antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase coexistence state in PbZrO3-Bi(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O-3. In: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 114 (23).

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Abstract

The ferroelectric system (1-x)PbZrO3-(x)Bi(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O-3 has been investigated as a function of composition, temperature, and electric field by x-ray powder diffraction, dielectric, and ferroelectric measurements. Within the solubility limit (x similar to 0.25), the system evolves from an orthorhombic-antiferroelectric to rhombohedral-ferroelectric state through a phase coexistence region. The highest polarization was found not for the composition exhibiting a pure ferroelectric state, but for a composition x = 0.15 exhibiting ferroelectric + antiferroelectric phase coexistence close to the rhombohedral phase boundary. Electric poling of the equilibrium two-phase state led to irreversible enhancement in the rhombohedral phase fraction suggesting that the enhanced polarization is related to the enhanced polarizability of the lattice due to first order criticality as in ferroelectric-ferroelectric morphotropic phase boundary systems. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Publisher:	AMER INST PHYSICS
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to AMER INST PHYSICS, USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2014 07:14
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2014 07:14
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/48261

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