Phase transition and polar cluster behavior above Curie temperature in ferroelectric BaTi0.8Zr0.2O3
We study the phase transition behavior of the ferroelectric BaTi0.8Zr0.2O3 in the paraelectric region. The temperature dependencies of thermal, polar, elastic and dielectric properties indicate the presence of local structures above the paraelectric-ferroelectric transition temperature Tc = 292 K. T...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/157701 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/157701 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0195017 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | remnan polarization resonant piezoelectric spectroscopy entropy Curie-Weiss law |
| Sumario: | We study the phase transition behavior of the ferroelectric BaTi0.8Zr0.2O3 in the paraelectric region. The temperature dependencies of thermal, polar, elastic and dielectric properties indicate the presence of local structures above the paraelectric-ferroelectric transition temperature Tc = 292 K. The non-zero remnant polarization is measured up to a characteristic temperature T* ~350 K, which coincides with the temperature where the dielectric constant deviates from Curie-Weiss law. Resonant Piezoelectric Spectroscopy shows that DC field-cooling above Tc using fields smaller than the coercive field leads to an elastic response and remnant piezoelectricity below T*, which likely corresponds to the coherence temperature associated with polar nanostructures in ferroelectrics. The observed remnant effect is attributed to the reorientation of polar nanostructures above Tc. |
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