Temperature-Dependent Analysis of Polar Nanostructures in High Temperature Relaxor Dielectrics

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A number of relaxor ferroelectric ceramics possess a near-stable relative permittivity over a wide temperature range, making them promising materials for electronic applications under extreme conditions. The physical basis of temperature stability is not explained by current theory. Electron microscopy suggests that local phase segregation produces polar and weakly polar nano-regions in the parent crystal lattice. These regions restrict nano-polar growth and ordering on cooling, maintaining the flat temperature response. We probe this local phase segregation in a perovskite solid solution series, (1-x)(Ba0.8Ca0.2)TiO3-xBi(Mg0.5Ti0.5)O3, across the temperature range of stable permittivity (150-500°C). Neutron PDF will probe the T-dependent changes in the local atomic structure. The aim is to obtain a nanostructure model for theoretical modelling and prediction of permittivity.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98004300
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98004300
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Creator Professor Sven Schroeder; Dr Steven Milne; Dr Teresa Roncal-Herrero; Professor David Keen; Dr Andrew Britton; Miss Holly Abell; Dr Anton Goetzee-Barral; Miss Gunjan Das; Mr Arturs Pugejs
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-18T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-22T07:00:00Z