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Computational study of the influence of oxygen vacancies on the polarization in irradiated and annealed PLZT ceramics

Yuri V. TrushinR. BittnerKarl HumerDmitry A. LesnyhDmitri V. KulikovHarald W. WeberAndris Sternberg

subject

Materials scienceCondensed matter physicsAnnealing (metallurgy)chemistry.chemical_elementOxygenCrystallographychemistryMaterial structurevisual_artvisual_art.visual_art_mediumIrradiationCeramicPhysics::Chemical PhysicsNeutron irradiation

description

A physical model for the oxygen defect evolution in PLZT ceramics under neutron irradiation and annealing is proposed. The influence of the defect system on the polarization of these materials has been investigated. The influence of the La content on the material structure and the oxygen defects has been taken into account. Satisfactory agreement between the theoretically estimated oxygen defect concentration after irradiation and annealing and the experimentally determined polarization has been obtained.

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456261