The Global and Local Symmetries of Nanostructured Ferroelectric Relaxor 0.94(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 – 0.06BaTiO3

Novel submicrometer-grained 0.94(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 – 0.06 BaTiO3 ceramic, prepared from nanopowder by a combination of hot-pressing and recrystallization, is investigated by high-resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction and x-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES). The simplest and best-fitting...

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Autores: LUIS EDMUNDO FUENTES COBAS, MARIA ELENA MONTERO CABRERA, MARIA ELENA FUENTES MONTERO
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:México
Institución:Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados
Repositorio:Fuente de Objetos Científicos Open Access del CIMAV
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:cimav.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1004/296
Acceso en línea:http://cimav.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1004/296
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/23
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Sumario:Novel submicrometer-grained 0.94(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3 – 0.06 BaTiO3 ceramic, prepared from nanopowder by a combination of hot-pressing and recrystallization, is investigated by high-resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction and x-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES). The simplest and best-fitting Rietveld refinement of the performed wide-Q diffraction experiment corresponds to a three-phase system formed by a ferroelectric rhombohedral R3c phase, a globally cubic Pm m phase and a small amount of nanosized (∼12 nm) quasi-cubic phase. The globally cubic phase and the nanosized one built up a complex, nanostructured, configuration that accounts for the reported dielectric relaxor behavior. XANES reveals that the departures from centro-symmetry at the unit cell scale for the precursor powder and for the sintered ceramic are practically the same.