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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 81, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.172103
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- Office of Naval Research [N00014-06-1-0166]
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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We report the finding of unusual scale-dependent symmetry below the ferroelectric Curie temperature in the perovskite Pb(Zr1-xTix)O-3 single crystals of morphotropic phase boundary compositions. The crystals of tetragonal symmetry on submicrometer scale exhibit a macroscopic (optically determined) cubic symmetry. This peculiar optical isotropy is explained by the anomalously small size of tetragonal ferroelectric domains. Upon further cooling the crystals transform to the phase consisting of micrometer-sized domains of monoclinic symmetry.
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