Stability of the monoclinic phase in the ferroelectric perovskite PbZr(1-x)TixO3

Details Stability of the monoclinic phase in the ferroelectric perovskite PbZr(1-x)TixO3 Stability of the monoclinic phase in the ferroelectric perovskite PbZr(1-x)TixO3

2000-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0006152v1

Phys. Rev. B 63, 014103

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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10.1103/PhysRevB.63.014103

Recent structural studies of ferroelectric PbZr(1-x)TixO3 (PZT) with x= 0.48, have revealed a new monoclinic phase in the vicinity of the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), previously regarded as the the boundary separating the rhombohedral and tetragonal regions of the PZT phase diagram. In the present paper, the stability region of all three phases has been established from high resolution synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction measurements on a series of highly homogeneous samples with 0.42 <=x<= 0.52. At 20K the monoclinic phase is stable in the range 0.46 <=x<= 0.51, and this range narrows as the temperature is increased. A first-order phase transition from tetragonal to rhombohedral symmetry is observed only for x= 0.45. The MPB, therefore, corresponds not to the tetragonal-rhombohedral phase boundary, but instead to the boundary between the tetragonal and monoclinic phases for 0.46 <=x<= 0.51. This result provides important insight into the close relationship between the monoclinic phase and the striking piezoelectric properties of PZT; in particular, investigations of poled samples have shown that the monoclinic distortion is the origin of the unusually high piezoelectric response of PZT.

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