Space group symmetries of the phases of (Pb0.94Sr0.06)(ZrxTi1-x)O-3 across the antiferrodistortive phase transition in the composition range 0.620 less than or similar to x less than or similar to 0.940

作者：Solanki Ravindra Singh; Senyshyn Anatoliy; Pandey Dhananjai^*

来源：Physical Review B, 2014, 90(21): 214110.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevB.90.214110

The existing controversies about the space group symmetries of Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O-3 (PZT) above and below the antiferrodistortive (AFD) phase-transition temperature (T-AFD) in theZr(4+)-rich (0.620 less than or similar to x less than or similar to 0.940) compositions are addressed using the results of dielectric, synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction (SXRPD) and neutron powder diffraction (NPD) studies. These compositions undergo an AFD phase transition above room temperature due to tilting of oxygen octahedra leading to a superlattice phase of PZT. We have substituted 6% Sr2+ at a Pb2+ site to enhance the tilt angle and thereby the intensity of the superlattice peaks. The real and imaginary parts of the complex dielectric permittivity have been used to locate the paraelectric to ferroelectric and ferroelectric to AFD phase transitions. Rietveld analysis of SXRPD and NPD profiles unambiguously reject the rhombohedral phases in the R3c and R3m space groups below and above T-AFD, respectively, with or without a coexisting monoclinic phase in the Cm space group and confirm that the true symmetries are monoclinic in the Cc and Cm space groups below and above T-AFD, respectively. Based on these and previous findings a phase diagram of PSZT for 0.40 %26lt;= x %26lt;= 0.90 showing stability fields of monoclinic Cc and monoclinic Cm, tetragonal P4mm, and cubic Pm (3) over barm phases has also been presented.

• 出版日期2014-12-29