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Dielectric properties of 0.4Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3–(0.6-x)SrTiO3–xPbTiO3 solid solutions
2014
Abstract In this paper we present our measurements of the linear and nonlinear dielectric permittivity of 0.4 Na 0.5 Bi 0.5 TiO 3 – ( 0.6 - x ) SrTiO 3 – xPbTiO 3 solid solutions (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15). The dielectric anomaly increases in the system with respect to the concentration of lead, showing that interactions between dipolar entities are modified. The system exhibits dipolar-glass-like behaviour at low values of x ( 0 ⩽ x 0.1 ). Relaxor behaviour emerges in the sample where x = 0.1 . Furthermore, a spontaneous first-order phase transition from relaxor to normal ferroelectric is observed at x ⩾ 0.15 . A few peculiar dispersion regions are observed in the ferroelectric phase, which …
Novel octahedral tilt system a + b + c + in (1 − x)Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3–xCdTiO3 solid solutions
2017
This work has been supported by National Research Program in the framework of project “Multifunctional Materials and composites, photonics and nanotechnology (IMIS2)”.
Simulations clarify when supercooled water freezes into glassy structures
2014
Although liquid water is a ubiquitous substance and its properties are crucial for all living species, the precise understanding of these properties is still a matter of active scientific research. One rather mysterious aspect concerns the conditions when undercooled water freezes not into ice crystals but into glass-like structures. Based on a rather novel type of computer simulation approach, in PNAS, Limmer and Chandler (1) propose a nonequilibrium phase diagram that attempts to clarify the conditions (temperature, pressure, cooling protocol) under which one should observe transitions from undercooled water to different forms of amorphous ice.
Dielectric and Polarization Properties of Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-BaTiO3Solid Solutions with Na and K Niobates
2015
The role of substitution in A- and B-sites of perovskite ABO3 structure in phase transitions is evaluated, comparing (1-y)(0.939Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-0.061BaTiO3)-yKxNa1-xNbO3 solid solutions with x = 0.0, x = 0.5 and x = 1.0. The influence of deviation from a stoichiometric Na/Bi ratio is also studied. The influence of K0.5Na0.5NbO3, NaNbO3 or KNbO3 reduces mainly to suppressing of ferroelectric properties, like in other perovskite ferroelectrics where Ti is replaced by Nb, and development of the relaxor state. Besides the frequency-dependent dielectric permittivity, the relaxor state in the studied compositions is characterized also by a temperature dependence of critical electric fields, corres…
Copolymer Melts in Disordered Media
1996
The symmetric AB block copolymer melt in a gel matrix with preferential adsorption of A monomers on the gel gives an example of a random-field system, which is described near the point of the microphase separation transition by the random field Landau-Brazovskii Hamiltonian. By using the technique of the 2-nd Legendre transform, the phase diagram of the system is calculated. We found that the preferential adsorption of the copolymer on the gel results in two effects: a) It decreases the temperature of the first order phase transition between disordered and ordered phase. b) There exists a region on the phase diagram at some small but finite value of the adsorption energy in which the replic…
Structure and properties of high piezoelectric coupling Pb(B′½Nb½)O3-PbTiO3binary systems
1999
Abstract The (1-x)Pb(Lu½ Nb½)O3-xPbTiO3 and (1-x)Pb(Er½ Nb½)O3-xPbTiO3 binary systems have been obtained, the structure and properties of which are studied. The unit cell of erbium niobate (PErN) is described as pseudomonoclinic of orthorhombic Bmm2 symmetry: a=c=4.2161 A b=4.0869 A β=90.55° and composition is characterized with antiferroelectric phase transition at 305°C. The PErNT system has the morphotropic phase region extending over the x=0.4–0.6 interval. In PLuNT ceramics system the pseudomonoclinic phase structure Bmm2 extending over the 0≤x ≤0.38 interval becomes pseudocubic at x≈ 0.2. The morphotropic region is spread over 0.38< × < 0.49; at higher PT concentrations (1.0 ≥ × ≥ 0.4…
Critical Phenomena at the Surface of Systems Undergoing a Bulk First Order Transition: Are They Understood?
2002
Systems that exhibit a first-order phase transition in the bulk, such as binary alloys where the order parameter vanishes discontinuously at some critical value of a control parameter, may show a continuous vanishing of the local order parameter at the surface. This “surface-induced disordering” is described theoretically as a variant of critical wetting, where an interface between the locally disordered surface and the ordered bulk gradually moves towards the bulk. We test this description by Monte Carlo simulations for a body centered cubic model alloy, with interactions between nearest and next nearest neighbors, for which the phase diagram in the bulk has been calculated very accurately…
Transport measurements under pressure in III–IV layered semiconductors
2007
PACS 61.50.Ks, 62.50.+p, 72.15.Jf, 72.80.Jc This paper reports on Hall effect, resistivity and thermopower effect measurements under high pressure up to 12 GPa in p-type γ-indium selenide (InSe) and e-gallium selenide (GaSe). The paper focuses on two applications of transport measurements under pressure: electronic structure and phase transition studies. As concerns the electronic structure, we investigate the origin of the striking differences between the pressure behaviour of transport parameters in both layered compounds. While the hole concentration and mobility increase moderately and monotonously in e-GaSe up to 10 GPa, a large increase of the hole concentration at near 0.8 GPa and a …
Polymer mixtures in confined geometries: Model systems to explore phase transitions
2005
While binary (A,B) symmetric polymer mixtures ind = 3 dimensions have an unmixing critical point that belongs to the 3d Ising universality class and crosses over to mean field behavior for very long chains, the critical behavior of mixtures confined into thin film geometry falls in the 2d Ising class irrespective of chain length. The critical temperature always scales linearly with chain length, except for strictly two-dimensional chains confined to a plane, for whichT; c ∝N; 5/8 (this unusual exponent describes the fractal contact line between segregated chains in dense melts in two spatial dimensions, d = 2). When the walls of the thin film are not neutral, but preferentially attract one …
EUDAQ $-$ A Data Acquisition Software Framework for Common Beam Telescopes
2019
EUDAQ is a generic data acquisition software developed for use in conjunction with common beam telescopes at charged particle beam lines. Providing high-precision reference tracks for performance studies of new sensors, beam telescopes are essential for the research and development towards future detectors for high-energy physics. As beam time is a highly limited resource, EUDAQ has been designed with reliability and ease-of-use in mind. It enables flexible integration of different independent devices under test via their specific data acquisition systems into a top-level framework. EUDAQ controls all components globally, handles the data flow centrally and synchronises and records the data…