Rhombohedral and Monoclinic Phases of PZT near the Antiferroelectric and the Morphotropic Boundaries

Abstract:

Anelastic and dielectric spectroscopy measurements are presented, which, together with previous measurements [1], clarify some controversial aspects of the phase diagram of PbZr_1xTi_xO₃ close to the border with the antiferroelectric (AFE) phase, and at the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). No evidence is found of a border separating monoclinic (M) from rhombohedral (R) phases, supporting recent structural studies according to which the two phases coexist, with the fraction of M prevailing near the MPB. A large frequency independent softening at the MPB indicates a genuine M phase over only finely twinned R phase. A new phase transition is found in both the anelastic and dielectric spectra at x = 0.1, at a temperature T_IT between the Curie temperature T_C and the boundary T_T to the phases with tilted octahedra. Such a diffuse transition is interpreted as onset of disordered tilts, which finally become ordered below T_T. In this manner, the phase diagram of PZT is rationalised with respect to the common tendency of perovskites to undergo tilting when the mismatch between the cation sizes exceeds a threshold.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 184)
• Pages: 333-338
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.184.333
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Francesco Cordero, Francesco Trequattrini, Floriana Craciun, Carmen Galassi
• Keywords: Anelasticity, Ferroelectric, Morphotropic Phase Boundary, Octahedral Tilting, Perovskite, PZT

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