Structural Studies of BiFeO3-KNbO3 Solid Solution

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Both BiFeO3 and KNbO3 are technologically important materials. BiFeO3 exhibs room temperature magnetic and ferroelectric ordering whilst KNbO3 is a lead free ferroelectric. Despite extensive research into the individual materials very little has been reported on the solid solution between the two. We have synthesised materials within this solid solution and our results indicate that single phase materials can be prepared over the whole compositional range. Furthermore, we have prepared the material KBiNbFeO6 which exhibits the potential to be doubly ordered (both A- and B-site ordered) - a relatively rare phenomenon. We propose to investigate the compositional driven phase transitions in this solid solution using PND with the aim of elucidating the structural properties of this system. Furthemore, we propose to investigate the variable temperature transitions in the KBiNbFeO6 material.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089665
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089665
Provenance
Creator Mr Chris Lennox; Dr Donna Arnold; Dr Laura Vera Stimpson; Dr Jonathan Gardner
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-10-13T08:33:47Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-10-16T15:01:23Z