Dielectric relaxation behavior in barium stannate titanate ferroelectric ceramics with diffused phase transition

The temperature dependence of dielectric permittivity was investigated for two ferroelectric ceramic compositions in a barium stannate titanate solid solution system. The dielectric relaxation behavior was observed in these ferroelectrics with diffused phase transition. In view of the polar nanoregion, the relationship between relaxor ferroelectric and ferroelectrics with a diffused phase transition was explored. The results suggest that, in barium stannate titanate, the relaxor ferroelectric dielectric behavior is universal in the diffused phase transition region, but it only appears when the experimental frequency is close to the relaxation frequency of polar nanoregion at that temperature. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.