Broadband Brillouin scattering study of ferroelectric instability of barium sodium niobate
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Published:2022
Issue:4
Volume:25
Page:43702
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ISSN:2224-9079
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Container-title:Condensed Matter Physics
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Condens. Matter Phys.
Abstract
The barium sodium niobate (BNN) with tungsten-bronze structure is one of well-known optical crystals for electro-optic and nonlinear optic applications. This paper reviews the ferroelectric instability of BNN crystals. BNN is a uniaxial ferroelectric with a spontaneous polarization along the tetragonal c-axis. There is no report on the observation of an optical soft mode responsible for a ferroelectric phase transition. In the vicinity of the Curie temperature, TC = 560°C, an intense central peak (CP) related to the polarization fluctuations along the c-axis was observed by the broadband Brillouin scattering experiment. The relaxation time determined by the CP width shows the critical slowing down towards TC. This fact indicates that the ferroelectric instability of BNN is an order-disorder type.
Publisher
Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
Subject
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous),Condensed Matter Physics
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