The structure of ferroelectric DCsDA
G M Meyer; O W Dietrich; R J Nelmes; W J Hay; R A Cowley; G M Meyer; Phys. Dept., Danish Atomic Energy Comm., Res. Establ., Riso, Denmark; O W Dietrich; Phys. Dept., Danish Atomic Energy Comm., Res. Establ., Riso, Denmark; R J Nelmes; Phys. Dept., Danish Atomic Energy Comm., Res. Establ., Riso, Denmark; W J Hay; Phys. Dept., Danish Atomic Energy Comm., Res. Establ., Riso, Denmark; R A Cowley; Phys. Dept., Danish Atomic Energy Comm., Res. Establ., Riso, Denmark
Журнал:
Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
Дата:
1975-02-28
Аннотация:
In further neutron scattering experiments on the (orthorhombic) ferroelectric phase of DCsDA and CsDA, a study has been made of the scattering arising at wavevectors along the a* direction at positions away from Bragg reflections. It is shown that this most probably arises from Bragg scattering in which two different ferroelectric domains are involved. Below T<sub>c</sub> each Bragg reflection can split into four separate spots corresponding to the different domain types. Surprisingly in DCsDA a central Bragg spot from the (tetragonal) paraelectric phase persists with decreasing intensity over a 60K temperature range. This effect has been observed with both neutron and X-ray scattering techniques and is independent of crystal size.
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