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Complete solid solubility is found in the pseudobinary system Ba2TiGe2O8-Ba2TiSi2O8 by studies on ceramics and single crystals (Czochralski technique). The spontaneous birefringence perpendicular to the polar axis of the orthorhombic low temperature phase has been measured versus temperature and silicon contents: the temperature of the phase transition of species 4mmFmm2 is of second order and decreases from 1103 K at 0 at % Si to about 400 K at 40 at % Si. The pyroelectric coefficient in the orthorhombic mm2 and the tetragonal 4 mm phase is of the order of 10−6 C m−2 K−1 in the entire system and has a positive temperature coefficient for all compositions studied except for Ba2TiGe2O8, in which the pyroelectric coefficient changes sign at about 308 K. The spacegroup of the orthorhombic phase is proposed to be C 112v -Cmm2.
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Schmid, H., Genequand, P., Tippmann, H. et al. Pyroelectricity and related properties in the fresnoite pseudobinary system Ba2TiGe2O8-Ba2TiSi2O8 . J Mater Sci 13, 2257–2265 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00541682
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