Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2005-10-11
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027601 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
5 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.027601
The paper suggests to treat the infrared reflectivity spectra of single crystal perovskite relaxors as fine-grained ferroelectric ceramics: locally frozen polarization makes the dielectric function strongly anisotropic in the phonon frequency range and the random orientation of the polarization at nano-scopic scale requires to take into account the inhomogeneous depolarization field. Employing a simple effective medium approximation (Bruggeman symmetrical formula) to dielectric function describing the polar optic modes as damped harmonic oscillators turns out to be sufficient for reproducing all principal features of room temperature reflectivity of PMN. One of the reflectivity bands is identified as a geometrical resonance entirely related to the nanoscale polarization inhomogeneity. The approach provides a general guide for systematic determination of the polar mode frequencies split by the inhomogeneous polarization at nanometer scale.
Hlinka J.
Kamba Stanislav
Noujni D.
Ostapchuk Tetyana
Petzelt Jan
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