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Crystallographic Aspects of Interfaces in Ferroelectrics and Related Materials

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Experimental studies of single crystals (SCs) of polar dielectrics show that, in an external electric field E, these materials can exhibit either linear or non-linear behaviour [1, 2]. A non-linear dependence of the polarization Pon Ein a certain range of Eis observed, for instance, in ferroelectric (FE) and antiferroelectric SCs [1, 3, 4], poled ceramics and SCs of FE solid solutions [3, 4], and composites based on FE ceramics [5]. The presence of FE and ferroelastic domains (or mechanical twins), heterophase regions, and fluctuations of composition makes the P(E) dependence complicated and is caused by many physical and crystallographic factors that are studied in the last decades [1, 3, 4]. Moreover, the dependence of physical properties on the domain structure (DS) in FE SCs and ceramic grains represents an independent problem that is solved by means of experimental and theoretical methods [6, 7, 8]. An interest in the aforementioned subjects stems from a necessity to study an important link between the domain configurations and physical properties of FEs, to consider the role of the domain-orientation processes in forming the physical properties, to describe their anomalies in heterophase states on mesoscopic and macroscopic levels, and to predict ways for the formation and rearrangement of DS at the structural phase transitions. To solve these and related problems, it is important to understand the physical phenomena that are concerned with the presence of both DS and heterophase states in FEs. One of the main links in the interpretation of the physical phenomena in polydomain and/or heterophase FE SCs is the interfaces [9] that represent systems of boundaries between the domains (or domain regions) and boundaries between the phases (they can be split into domains). It should be added that the polydomain SC as a model object plays the leading role in the hierarchy of the physical properties ‘single-domain FE SC – polydomain FE SC – FE polycrystal – poled FE ceramic – composite based on FE ceramic, and an important example of this hierarchy was first analysed for FEs of the PbTiO3type [7, 8, 10].

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Topolov, V.Y. (2012). Crystallographic Aspects of Interfaces in Ferroelectrics and Related Materials. In: Heterogeneous Ferroelectric Solid Solutions. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 151. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22483-6_1

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