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Temperature dependences of the dielectric permittivity of betaine phosphite crystals are studied both without and under application of an electric bias. It is shown that, in view of the fact that the high-temperature improper ferroelastic (antiferrodistorsive) phase transition at T c1=355 K is nearly tricritical, the nonlinear temperature dependence of inverse dielectric permittivity in the paraelectric phase and the effect of the field on the dielectric permittivity can be described within a phenomenological model containing two coupled (polar and nonpolar) order parameters with a negative coupling coefficient. An analysis of the model revealed that, in the case where two phase transitions, a nonpolar and a ferroelectric one, can occur in the crystal, all of its dielectric properties, including the polarization response in a field, can be described by one dimensionless parameter a. For the crystal under study, we have a=−2.5. This value of the parameter corresponds to a second-order ferroelectric transition far from the tricritical point, at which a=−1. It is shown that the polarization response in the paraelectric phase in an electric field calculated within this model differs radically from that in the ferroelectric phase-transition model for which the Curie-Weiss law holds in the paraelectric phase.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 44, No. 8, 2002, pp. 1522–1528.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Balashova, Lemanov, Klöpperpieper.
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Balashova, E.V., Lemanov, V.V. & Klöpperpieper, A. Effect of electric field on the dielectric permittivity of betaine phosphite crystals in the paraelectric phase. Phys. Solid State 44, 1597–1603 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1501365
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