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Composition- and Pressure-Induced Ferroelectric to Antiferroelectric Phase Transitions in Sm-Doped BiFeO₃ System
Applied Physics Letters
  • Fei Xue
  • Linyun Liang
  • Yijia Gu, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Ichiro Takeuchi
  • Sergei V. Kalinin
  • Long-Qing Chen
Abstract

A three-dimensional phenomenological model is proposed to describe both ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity based on the Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire theory. Its application to the multiferroic Sm-doped BiFeO3 system describes the temperature-, pressure-, and composition-induced ferroelectric to antiferroelectric phase transitions. The constructed temperature-composition and temperature-pressure phase diagrams show that compressive hydrostatic pressure and Sm doping have similar effects on the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phase transitions. It is also indicated from the temperature-pressure phase diagram that the experimentally observed phase of BiFeO3 under the hydrostatic pressure from 3 GPa to 10 GPa is a PbZrO3-like antiferroelectric phase.

Department(s)
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Antiferroelectricity,
  • Ferroelectricity,
  • Hydraulics,
  • Hydrostatic pressure, Anti ferroelectrics,
  • Antiferroelectric phase transition,
  • Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity,
  • Ginzburg-Landau,
  • ITS applications,
  • Phenomenological modeling,
  • Pressure phase,
  • Temperature composition, Phase diagrams
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2015 American Institute of Physics (AIP), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Publication Date
01 Jan 2015
Citation Information
Fei Xue, Linyun Liang, Yijia Gu, Ichiro Takeuchi, et al.. "Composition- and Pressure-Induced Ferroelectric to Antiferroelectric Phase Transitions in Sm-Doped BiFeO₃ System" Applied Physics Letters Vol. 106 Iss. 1 (2015) ISSN: 0003-6951; 1077-3118
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yijia-gu/37/