TY - JOUR
T1 - Ferroelectric precursor behavior of highly cation-ordered PbSc0.5Ta0.5O3 detected by acoustic emission
T2 - Tweed and polar nanoregions
AU - Dul'Kin, Evgeniy
AU - Salje, Ekhard K.H.
AU - Aktas, Oktay
AU - Whatmore, Roger W.
AU - Roth, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
PY - 2014/11/24
Y1 - 2014/11/24
N2 - Highly ordered ferroelectric PbSc0.5Ta0.5O3 crystals were studied by acoustic emission over a wide temperature range. Acoustic emission was found at three characteristic temperatures: 330, 409, and 600K, which are close to those, known from the same disordered crystals, containing polar nanoregions. The microstructure in our crystals contains structural "tweed" rather than nanoregions. The coincidence of acoustic emission temperatures points towards a close structural relationship between nanoregions and "tweed." Under electric field, these temperatures shift similar to "critical end point" behavior. The obtained data prove that acoustic emission detects signals in a wider parameter space than previously expected.
AB - Highly ordered ferroelectric PbSc0.5Ta0.5O3 crystals were studied by acoustic emission over a wide temperature range. Acoustic emission was found at three characteristic temperatures: 330, 409, and 600K, which are close to those, known from the same disordered crystals, containing polar nanoregions. The microstructure in our crystals contains structural "tweed" rather than nanoregions. The coincidence of acoustic emission temperatures points towards a close structural relationship between nanoregions and "tweed." Under electric field, these temperatures shift similar to "critical end point" behavior. The obtained data prove that acoustic emission detects signals in a wider parameter space than previously expected.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.4902511
DO - 10.1063/1.4902511
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AN - SCOPUS:84912072687
SN - 0003-6951
VL - 105
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
IS - 21
M1 - 212901
ER -