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Nature Communications, volume 4, issue 1, publication number 2229

The origin of antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3

Tagantsev A. K. 1, 2
Vaideeswaran K. 2
Vakhrushev S. B. 1, 3
Filimonov A. V. 3
Burkovsky R. G. 3, 4
Shaganov A. 3
Andronikova D 3
Rudskoy A. I. 3
Baron A. Q. R. 5
Uchiyama H. 5
Chernyshov D. 6
Bosak A. 4
Ujma Z. 7
Roleder K. 7
MAJCHROWSKI A. 8
Ko J.-H. 9
Setter N. 2
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SPring-8, RIKEN and JASRI, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Japan
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Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland,
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Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, ul. Kaliskiego 2, Warsaw, Poland
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Department of Physics, Hallym University, 39 Hallymdaehakgil, Chuncheon, Korea
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2013-07-29
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
Q1
Impact factor16.6
ISSN20411723
General Chemistry
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Antiferroelectrics are essential ingredients for the widely applied piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials: the most common ferroelectric, lead zirconate titanate is an alloy of the ferroelectric lead titanate and the antiferroelectric lead zirconate. Antiferroelectrics themselves are useful in large digital displacement transducers and energy-storage capacitors. Despite their technological importance, the reason why materials become antiferroelectric has remained allusive since their first discovery. Here we report the results of a study on the lattice dynamics of the antiferroelectric lead zirconate using inelastic and diffuse X-ray scattering techniques and the Brillouin light scattering. The analysis of the results reveals that the antiferroelectric state is a ‘missed’ incommensurate phase, and that the paraelectric to antiferroelectric phase transition is driven by the softening of a single lattice mode via flexoelectric coupling. These findings resolve the mystery of the origin of antiferroelectricity in lead zirconate and suggest an approach to the treatment of complex phase transitions in ferroics. Although antiferroelectric lead zirconate is a principal component in the most widely used piezoelectric ceramics, the nature of its antiferroelectricticity has been unclear. Here Tagantsevet al.reveal how this phenomenon arises from the softening of a single lattice mode.

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Tagantsev A. K. et al. The origin of antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3 // Nature Communications. 2013. Vol. 4. No. 1. 2229
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Tagantsev A. K., Vaideeswaran K., Vakhrushev S. B., Filimonov A. V., Burkovsky R. G., Shaganov A., Andronikova D., Rudskoy A. I., Baron A. Q. R., Uchiyama H., Chernyshov D., Bosak A., Ujma Z., Roleder K., MAJCHROWSKI A., Ko J., Setter N. The origin of antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3 // Nature Communications. 2013. Vol. 4. No. 1. 2229
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1038/ncomms3229
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fncomms3229
TI - The origin of antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3
T2 - Nature Communications
AU - Tagantsev, A. K.
AU - Vaideeswaran, K.
AU - Vakhrushev, S. B.
AU - Filimonov, A. V.
AU - Burkovsky, R. G.
AU - Shaganov, A.
AU - Andronikova, D
AU - Rudskoy, A. I.
AU - Baron, A. Q. R.
AU - Uchiyama, H.
AU - Chernyshov, D.
AU - Bosak, A.
AU - Ujma, Z.
AU - Roleder, K.
AU - MAJCHROWSKI, A.
AU - Ko, J.-H.
AU - Setter, N.
PY - 2013
DA - 2013/07/29 00:00:00
PB - Springer Nature
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VL - 4
SN - 2041-1723
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@article{2013_Tagantsev,
author = {A. K. Tagantsev and K. Vaideeswaran and S. B. Vakhrushev and A. V. Filimonov and R. G. Burkovsky and A. Shaganov and D Andronikova and A. I. Rudskoy and A. Q. R. Baron and H. Uchiyama and D. Chernyshov and A. Bosak and Z. Ujma and K. Roleder and A. MAJCHROWSKI and J.-H. Ko and N. Setter},
title = {The origin of antiferroelectricity in PbZrO3},
journal = {Nature Communications},
year = {2013},
volume = {4},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {jul},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fncomms3229},
number = {1},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms3229}
}
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