Non-centrosymmetrtic Dion-Jacobson and Ruddlesden-Popper Phases

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Ferroelectric materials find many applications, however ferroelectric behaviour is rare as it requires a material to have a non-centrosymmetric (NCS) structure.We have been studying the role of the cooperative twisting and tilting distortions of the octahedral units in layered Dion-Jacobson and Ruddlesden-Popper phases on NCS structure formation. DFT calculations predict that the ground state structures of A’NdB2O7 (A’ = Cs, Rb; B = Nb, Ta) phases should be polar. SHG measurements have confirmed these phases have acentric crystal structures.Furthermore, the large A’ cations in Dion-Jacobson phase can be exchanged for lithium, to yield phases with Ruddlesden-Popper type structures. SHG measurements indicate these phases are also acentric. We propose to collect powder neutron diffraction data from these phases to determine their structures accurately.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84746198
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84746198
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Creator Mr Nijat Hasanli; Mr Tong Zhu; Professor Michael Hayward; Dr Alexandra Gibbs
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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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Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-11T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-12T08:00:00Z