Stability of the monoclinic phase in the ferroelectric perovskite PbZr1-xTixO3
By Beatriz Noheda, D. Cox, G. Shirane, Ruyan Guo, B. Jones, L. Cross. 2000
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Recent structural studies of ferroelectric ${\mathrm{PbZr}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Ti}}_{x}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ (PZT) with $x=0.48,$ have revealed a monoclinic phase in the vicinity of the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB), previously regarded as the boundary separating the rhombohedral and tetragonal regions of the PZT phase diagram. In the present paper, the stability region of all three phases has been established from high-resolution synchrotron x-ray powder-diffraction measurements on a series of highly homogeneous samples with $0.42l~xl~0.52.$ At 20 K, the monoclinic phase is stable in the range $0.46l~xl~0.51,$ and this range narrows as the temperature is increased. A first-order phase transition from tetragonal to rhombohedral symmetry is observed only for $x=0.45.$ The MPB, therefore, corresponds not to the tetragonal-rhombohedral phase boundary, but instead to the boundary between the tetragonal and monoclinic phases for $0.46l~xl~0.51.$ This result provides important insight into the close relationship between the monoclinic phase and the striking piezoelectric properties of PZT; in particular, investigations of poled samples have shown that the monoclinic distortion is the origin of the unusually high piezoelectric response of PZT.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry
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- Oxides, Oxides, and More Oxides: High-κ Oxides, Ferroelectrics, Ferromagnetics, and Multiferroics (2009, background): “228 , 229 One can see a narrow region of monoclinic phases with Cm and Cc symmetries at compositions corresponding to the MPB.”