Abstract
The analysis of local polar clusters formed by random fields in ferroelectrics is of technical and fundamental importance in understanding piezoelectricity. The temperature and electric field dependences of elastic properties and the ferroelectric phase transition have been investigated in (100)-oriented BaTiO3single crystals by micro-Brillouin scattering. In the field cooling process, LA phonons are scattered by polar clusters. As a result, the LA phonon frequency increases as compared with that of the zero-field cooling process. Under the application of an external electric field along the [100] direction in the tetragonal ferroelectric phase, a complete 90° domain switching is accomplished. Under the electric field, abrupt changes in the frequency shift and FWHM of the LA phonons in the paraelectric cubic phase indicate the occurrence of a phase transition from the cubic to the tetragonal phase. AnE–Tphase diagram has been proposed from the field-induced phase transition.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering
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