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Ferroelectricity in Silver Perovskite Oxides
There are two silver perovskite oxides: AgNbO3 and AgTaO3. AgNbO3 has a
noncentrosymmetric group of Pmc21 at room temperature with a ferri-electric
ordering of polarization. Such a ferri-electric state with small polarization
can be changed into a ferroelectric state with very large polarization by a
high electric field or by a chemical modification. The induced ferroelectric
phase shows promising electromechanical response for applications in
piezoelectric devices. In contrast, AgTaO3 is a quantum paraelectric, but
ferroelectricity also can be induced through chemical substitution. The
findings of good ferroelectric and piezoelectric performance in the silver
perovskites are hoped to trigger further theoretical and experimental
investigations on these systems.Comment: 30 pages, 41 figures; Ferroelectrics - Material Aspects, Mickael
Lallart (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-332-3, InTech, Rijeka, Croatia. 2011,
pp.413-44
Role of Ca off-Centering in Tuning Ferroelectric Phase Transitions in Ba(Zr,Ti)O3System
We here report the substitution effects of the smaller Ca for the bulky Ba in the (Ba1-xCax)(Ti-1-yZry)O3 perovskite oxides for two systems (Ba1-xCax)TiO3 with y=0 and (Ba1-xCax)(Ti0.9Zr0.1)O3 with y=0.1. Ca off-centering was found to play a critical role in stabilizing the ferroelectric phase and tuning the polarization states in both systems. It was demonstrated that the atomic displacement due to Ca off-centering in the bulky Ba-sites in the perovskite structure provides an effective approach to compensate for the reduction of ferroelectricity due to chemical pressure, which allows to keep the Curie point nearly constant in the (Ba1-xCax)TiO3 system and increase the Curie point in the (Ba1-xCax)( Ti0.9Zr0.1)O3 system. It was commonly observed that the Ca off-centering effects lead to the shift of the rhombohedral–orthorhombic and orthorhombic–tetragonal phase transitions toward lower temperatures and the ferroelectric stability of the tetragonal phase, resulting in the occurrence of quantum phase transitions with interesting physical phenomena at low temperatures in the (Ba1-xCax)TiO3 system and remarkable enhancement of electromechanical coupling effects around room temperature in the (Ba1-xCax)(Ti0.9Zr0.1)O3 systems over a wide range of Ca-concentrations. These findings may be of great interest for the design of green piezoelectric materials
Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN) Relaxor: Dipole Glass or Nano-Domain Ferroelectric?
Combining our comprehensive investigations of polarization evolution,
soft-mode by Raman scattering and microstructure by TEM, and the results
reported in the literatures, we show that prototypical relaxor Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3
(PMN) is essentially ferroelectric for T<Tc~225 K. Its anomalous dielectric
behavior over a broad temperature range results from the reorientation of
domains in the crystal. A physic picture of the structure evolution in relaxor
is also revealed. It is found that nanometric ferroelectric domains (gennerally
called as polar nano-region (PNR)) interact cooperatively to form micrometric
domain. Such multiscale inhomogeneities of domain structure in addition to the
well-known inhomogeneities of chemical composition and local symmetry are
considered to play a crucial role in producing the enigmatic phenomena in
relaxor system.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures;
http://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-ferroelectrics/pb-mg1-3nb2-3-o3-pmn-relaxor-dipole-glass-or-nano-domain-ferroelectric
catena-Poly[[[aquapyridinezinc(II)]-μ2-3,3′-(p-phenylene)diacrylato] pyridine solvate]
The title compound, {[Zn(C12H8O4)(C5H5N)(H2O)]·C5H5N}n, has been prepared by hydrothermal reaction. The ZnII atom is six-coordinated by four carboxylate O atoms of two p-phenylenediacrylate (ppda2−) ligands, one N atom of a pyridine molecule and one O atom of a water molecule in a distorted octahedral environment. The carboxylate groups of the ppda2− anions are in a bridging–chelating mode, in which two O atoms chelate one Zn2+ ion. These connections result in an extended chain structure. Parallel packing of the chains forms a two-dimensional network with intermolecular edge-to-face interactions. Further linkages between the layers through O—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding interactions result in a three-dimensional supramolecular architecture with one-dimensional rectanglar channels
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