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Structural conditionality of the piezoelectric properties of langasite family crystals

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The atomic displacements upon isomorphic substitutions in crystals of the langasite family have been analyzed. The thermal parameters are determined and the probability density function of atoms is analyzed. Local potential energy minima are found which can be occupied by atoms under external effects. The contributions of cations in all four independent crystallographic positions and anions in all three such positions to the piezoelectric properties are established. One specific structural feature is the constant (at isomorphic substitutions) or possible (under external effects) but always opposite displacements of two cations along symmetry axis 2. Large cations in eight-vertex polyhedra make the main contribution to the piezoelectric properties. The cations in the tetrahedra on symmetry axis 2 weaken these properties. The cations in the octahedra in the origin of coordinates and in the tetrahedra on symmetry axes 3 only slightly affect the piezoelectricity.

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Original Russian Text © A.P. Dudka, V.I. Simonov, 2011, published in Kristallografiya, 2011, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 1047–1053.

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Dudka, A.P., Simonov, V.I. Structural conditionality of the piezoelectric properties of langasite family crystals. Crystallogr. Rep. 56, 980–985 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774511060058

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