Influence of electric field on local phase transformations in relaxor ferroelectrics PbSc0.5Ta0.5O3 and Pb0.78Ba0.22Sc0.5Ta0.5O3

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  • In situ temperature-dependent Raman-scattering experiments under an external dc electric field E have been performed on PbSc 0.5 Ta 0.5 O 3 (PST) and Pb 0.78 Ba 0.22 Sc 0.5 Ta 0.5 O 3 (PST-Ba) in order to give further insights into the atomistic mechanism of polar coupling in perovskite-type (ABO 3) relaxor ferroelectrics near the intermediate characteristic temperature T *. The polarized Raman spectra collected under an electric field E applied along the cubic [100], [110], or [111] crystallographic direction were analyzed in terms of hard-mode spectroscopy. The T * (E) dependence was derived from the behavior of the phonon mode near 230 cm - 1 localized in off-centered B-site cations. In the case of stoichiometric PST, the increase of T * with E is much stronger when the field is applied along [111] than when E is along [100] or [110]. This indicates that the actual polar B-cation shifts are along the cubic body diagonals, implying a rhombohedral structure of the polar nanoregions. The T * (E)-dependence reveals that the local structural distortions associated with locally coupled polar displacements of B-site cations reach saturation near 0.5 kV/cm. When Pb 2 + is partially replaced by Ba 2 +, the strong increase of T * with E occurs if the electric field is applied along the [110] direction. This indicates that the substitution disorder on the A-site lowers the symmetry of the polar nanoregions to orthorhombic or monoclinic. The T * (E) dependence determined from the B-cation localized mode shows saturation near 2.0 kV/cm, indicating that the zero-field structural state of PST-Ba exhibits less coupled polar shifts of B-site cations as compared to that of PST. According to the E-dependence of the Raman scattering near 55 cm - 1, for both compounds the overall response of the Pb system to the external electric field in the vicinity of T * (E) resembles antiferroelectric behavior, which along with the fact that the coupling between the B-site cations is ferroelectric, suggests that the polar nanoregions in Pb-based relaxors are ferrielectric in nature. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.
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