Local Structure in PMN Relaxors from Neutron Total-Scattering and X-ray Single-Crystal Diffuse-Scattering Data

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This experiment seeks to resolve an ambiguity surrounding the structure of a prototypical relaxor ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN). Relaxors have been studied extensively for nearly 60 years. Despite all the efforts, the nanoscale structure of these materials remains elusive. In particular, for PMN, several distinct models have been proposed (e.g., polar nanoregions vs glass-like dipole network) and the debate is ongoing. We intend to address this problem by exploiting recent advances in structural refinements using multiple types of data. Local atomic displacements and their correlations will be determined using simultaneous fitting of the neutron total-scattering and X-ray single-crystal diffuse-scattering data in the RMCProfile software. The goal of the proposed measurements is to provide the neutron total-scattering data for this study.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82357602
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82357602
Provenance
Creator Dr Helen Playford; Dr Igor Levin
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-15T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-18T07:00:00Z