Atomistic modeling of temperature-driven structural alterations in a ferroelectric solid solution with a reduced Pb content

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Ferroelectric materials, mainly Pb-containing, have widespread applications in our modern-day life, primarily used as sensors, actuator and memories. However challenges still remain to understand the structure-property relations at the atomic level, which is crucial in order to develop bespoke materials with improved qualities, and to find Pb-free alternatives to avoid environmental concerns. Here we aim to investigate a reduced Pb-content ferroelectric system (1-x)PbTiO3 -xBi(Mg1/2Ti1/2)O3, which was first reported in 2004 as a promising high-temperature (Tc ~ 700 K) piezoelectric material, through studying their pair distribution function at ambient and non-ambient temperature with a view to establish categorically the behavior of each cation or a preferred chemical order that impacts the properties of the system. We propose to use GEM for this study, which is a dedicated PDF beamline.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82414454
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82414454
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Creator Professor Boriana Mihailova; Dr Kaustuv Datta; Ms Irina Margaritescu; Professor David Keen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-09-29T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-03T07:00:00Z