Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.255702
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CMMI-1027873]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 595]
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1027873] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Ask authors/readers for more resources
It has been widely accepted that electric fields favor the ferroelectric phase with parallel electric dipoles over the antiferroelectric phase. With detailed measurements in polycrystalline ceramics of Pb(0.99)Nb(0.02)[(Zr(0.57)Sn(0.43))(1-y)Ti(y)](0.98)O(3), we demonstrate in this Letter that electric fields can induce an antiferroelectric phase out of a ferroelectric phase, i.e., trigger an apparently unlikely ferroelectric-to-antiferroelectric phase transition. We suggest that it is caused by the volume contraction from the converse piezoelectric effect at the coercive field with a reversed polarity.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available