Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2003-03-03
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages, 7 figures, Conference-Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics 2003
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1609938
Temperature dependent studies of the 1/2(hk0) superlattice reflections \alpha spots by synchrotron x-ray scattering measurements were performed in (PMN) and (PMN-xPT) with Ti doping x<0.32 single crystals. Separation of the \alpha spots from the underlying diffuse scattering background allowed studying them as separate entities for the first time. Structure factor calculations have shown that alpha spots constitute the presence of a new kind of anti-ferrodistortive nanoregions (AFR) in the form of fluctuations produced by anti-parallel short-range correlated <110> Pb^2+ displacements. AFR appear to be different and unrelated to the chemical nanodomains (CND) and ferroelectric polar nanoregions (PNR). Simultaneous presence of AFR and PNR can explain relaxor behavior as a result of competition between randomly occurring ferroelectric and anti-ferroelectric fluctuations. Temperature dependence of the \alpha spots in PMN showed a direct correlation with the freezing phase transition near Tf~220 K.
Chen Haydn
Tkachuk Alexandra
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