Aliovalent cation ordering, coexisting ferroelectric structures, and electric field induced phase transformation in lead-free ferroelectric Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3

Pan, J and Niranjan, Manish K and Waghmare, U K (2016) Aliovalent cation ordering, coexisting ferroelectric structures, and electric field induced phase transformation in lead-free ferroelectric Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3. Journal of Applied Physics, 119 (12). ISSN 0021-8979

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Abstract

Using first-principles calculations, we show that a specific chemical ordering of Na and Bi in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 is responsible for the co-existence of its ferroelectric phases with rhombohedral R3c and monoclinic Cc structures, which are relevant to its morphotropic phase boundary and large piezoelectric response. We identify the signatures of chemical ordering in the calculated phonon spectra and establish the prevalence of A-type ordering through comparison with experiment. We uncover a mechanism of the observed electric field induced Cc to lower energy R3c structural transformation promoted by a hybrid soft mode involving a combination of TiO6 rotations and a polar component.

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Niranjan, Manish KUNSPECIFIED
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Bismuth-Titanate; Piezoelectrics; Na1/2bi1/2tio3; Scattering; Raman
Subjects: Physics
Divisions: Department of Physics
Depositing User: Team Library
Date Deposited: 29 Apr 2016 09:59
Last Modified: 10 Nov 2017 05:36
URI: http://raiith.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/2300
Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944473
OA policy: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0021-8979/
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