Investigating short range order in textured PZT

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Although there has been extensive investigation into lead-free piezoelectric materials due to environmental concerns and E.U. legislation, lead-free alternatives do not yet offer competitive properties. Currently the mechanism by which lead based materials show improved properties is not well understood. Examining the short range order of PZT in un-poled and poled forms will provide an explanation and hence clues as to how to engineer lead-free alternatives. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis provides the short and medium range coherence lengths necessary for understanding local structure.Aims - collect PDF data for poled and unpoled PZT samples across the compositional phase boundary. - Use the oxygen tilt peak to mark ferroelectric order

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49916109
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49916109
Provenance
Creator Mr Anton Goetzee-Barral; Dr Tim Stevenson; Dr Tim Comyn; Mr Jim Bennett; Professor David Keen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-06-19T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-22T23:00:00Z