A-site size effect in a family of unfilled ferroelectric tetragonal tungsten bronzes: Ba4R0.67Nb10O30 (R = La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy and Y)

作者：Gardner Jonathan; Morrison Finlay D^*

来源：Dalton Transactions, 2014, 43(30): 11687-11695.

DOI：10.1039/c4dt00126e

The effect of A-cation size on the structural and electrical properties in a family of ferroelectric tetragonal tungsten bronzes (TTBs) Ba4R0.67 square 133Nb10O30 (R = La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy and Y; square = vacancy) was investigated. In each case, the crystal structure, as determined from lab-based ambient powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), is metrically tetragonal and can be refined in the P4bm space group. XRD data show an increased splitting of hk0 00l reflections with decreasing R cation size indicating an increasing tetragonal distortion (measured by tetragonality c/a). Dielectric data and ferroelectric measurements indicate that the ferroelectric Curie temperature, T-C, increases with decreasing R size and so a direct correlation between T-C and tetragonality/ionic radius of R is demonstrated. Rietveld refinements show that the large A2-site is fully occupied by Ba2+ and, in addition to the R cation size, the presence of vacancies at the A1-site (perovskite-like site) is also shown to strongly affect the stability of ferroelectricity in this structure type.

• 出版日期2014-8-14