Probing Novel Phenomena in Sodium Bismuth Titanate

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Sodium Bismuth Titanate, Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 (NBT) is a mixed A-site perovskite. It is both of commercial interest, due to its usage in lead-free piezoelectric solid-solutions; and of fundamental interest, due the richness of length scales over which its structural features are observed. We aim to characterise the long-range, average structure, across a recently observed thermally induced phenomenon: the optical isotropisation point. At a temperature just below the pseudo-rhombohedral to tetragonal phase transition, NBT becomes fleetingly non-birefringent: it appears that all strain and polarization¿at least on the length scale of visible light¿go to zero. High-quality Rietveld refinements around this temperature will reveal the existence of any structural anomalies that occur, including any pseudo-cubic phase, thus revealing the atomic providence of this macroscopic observation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090146
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090146
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Creator Professor Pam Thomas; Dr David Woodward; Dr Dean Keeble
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-03-07T07:21:05Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-03-10T12:37:32Z