Mechanism of polarization response in the ergodic phase of a relaxor ferroelectric
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 57 (1), 18-21
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.57.18
Abstract
It is shown that the effects of large dc bias and ac driving fields on the dielectric permittivity of single crystals of (PMN) relaxor ferroelectric exhibit very different behavior, including anisotropy and sign of the effect, which is traced up to the high-temperature interval in the ergodic phase. The observed phenomena strongly suggest that in the ergodic phase of PMN the dielectric response to the ac field is controlled by a side-way motion of the interphase boundaries of the polar regions, rather than by the thermally activated reorientations of the local spontaneous polarization.
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