Coexistence of relaxor and normal ferroelectric phases in morphotropic phase boundary compositions of lanthanum-modified lead zirconate titanate

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 557-564

  Gupta, Surya M ^a,b   Li, Jie Fang ^a,b   Viehland, Dwight ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LANTHANUM; LEAD COMPOUNDS; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE COMPOSITION; POLARIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; STRAIN; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; MORPHOTROPIC PHASE BOUNDARY (MPB);

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0032023589     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1998.tb02374.x     Document Type: Article

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