Crossover from ferroelectric to relaxor behavior in BaTi 1-xSnxO3 solid solutions

Phase Transitions

Volumn 81, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1013-1021

  Shvartsman, V V ^a   Dec, J ^a,b   Xu, Z K ^c   Banys, J ^d   Keburis, P ^d   Kleemann, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Barium titanate; Dielectric spectroscopy; Domain walls; Polar nanoregions; Random fields; Relaxor ferroelectrics

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BARIUM TITANATE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; DOMAIN WALLS; FERROELECTRIC CERAMICS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOLID SOLUTIONS; TIN;

CROSS OVERS; NANOSIZED; POLAR NANOREGIONS; RANDOM FIELDS; RELAXOR; RELAXOR BEHAVIORS; RELAXOR FERROELECTRICS; RELAXOR PROPERTIES; RELAXORS;

DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 57649234554     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411590802457888     Document Type: Article

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