Possible high-temperature polar phases in the [110] layered perovskites NdBaInO4 and YBaScO4

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Geometric ferroelectrics are an unusual and rare class of materials which exhibit spontaneous electrical polarisation due purely to 'geometric' effects, i.e. caused by atomic size mismatch, rather than 'electronically' driven factors. The compound LaTaO4 is one case, which is particularly unusual in showing a transition to such a state on INCREASING, rather than decreasing temperature. In this proposal we seek to characterise two new compounds, distinct from, but closely related to LaTaO4, which we believe may show a similar 'geometry-induced' electrical polarisation. The apparent phase transition of one of these, has previously been overlooked in the literature. We will use high-resolution powder neutron diffraction to ascertain whether these new materials do indeed display this unusual behaviour.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910025-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101665886
Provenance
Creator Mr Alasdair Bradford; Miss Ceng Han; Professor Phil Lightfoot; Dr Alexandra Gibbs; Miss Yuanyuan Guo
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
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 Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-03-19T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-03-22T08:00:00Z