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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 97, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3491218
Keywords
compressive strength; elasticity; indium compounds; lead compounds; magnesium compounds; relaxor ferroelectrics; solid-state phase transformations; stress effects; ultrasonic effects
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
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In this work we report on the elastic hysteretic behavior observed in ferroelectric lead indium niobate-lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PIN-PMN-PT) relaxor single crystals under conditions of cooperative stress, temperature, and electric field. Room temperature elastic response displays strong and sharp discontinuity associated with stress induced phase transition. Quasistatic elastic response and ultrasonic wave propagation measurements demonstrated that this strain discontinuity in PIN-PMN-PT single crystal is associated with a ferroelectric rhombohedral (F-R)-ferroelectric orthorhombic (F-O) phase transition. The temperature dependent elastic response and transition strain were modeled by Devonshire theory. The crystal instability under compression is significantly improved by application of a dc bias electric field. [doi:10.1063/1.3491218]
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