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Interplay between Ca- and Ti-driven ferroelectric distortions in (Ba, Ca)TiO 3 solid solutions from first-principles calculations
- Source :
- Applied Physics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics, 2019, 114 (9), pp.092902. ⟨10.1063/1.5065655⟩
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Abstract
- (Ba,Ca)(Ti,Zr)O3 solid solutions are promising lead-free piezoelectrics near their polymorphic phase boundary, which is believed to be linked to the interplay between B-site driven ferroelectricity and A-site driven ferroelectricity. Focusing on (Ba,Ca)TiO3, we support this picture from first-principles calculations. In particular, we show how steric effects related to the partial substitution of Ba by Ca largely enhance the Ca-driven ferroelectricity, already virtually allowed in the parent CaTiO3. The emergent interplay between the Ca-driven and Ti-driven mechanisms lowers the energy barrier between different polar states, which eventually results in a quasi-isotropic polarization under substitution of a small concentration of Ba by Ca. A sizeable enhancement of the piezoelectric response directly results from these features.(Ba,Ca)(Ti,Zr)O3 solid solutions are promising lead-free piezoelectrics near their polymorphic phase boundary, which is believed to be linked to the interplay between B-site driven ferroelectricity and A-site driven ferroelectricity. Focusing on (Ba,Ca)TiO3, we support this picture from first-principles calculations. In particular, we show how steric effects related to the partial substitution of Ba by Ca largely enhance the Ca-driven ferroelectricity, already virtually allowed in the parent CaTiO3. The emergent interplay between the Ca-driven and Ti-driven mechanisms lowers the energy barrier between different polar states, which eventually results in a quasi-isotropic polarization under substitution of a small concentration of Ba by Ca. A sizeable enhancement of the piezoelectric response directly results from these features.
- Subjects :
- 010302 applied physics
Steric effects
[PHYS]Physics [physics]
Phase boundary
Materials science
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
02 engineering and technology
[CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry
Partial substitution
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Ferroelectricity
Piezoelectricity
Chemical physics
0103 physical sciences
[PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]
[PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]
0210 nano-technology
Polarization (electrochemistry)
Solid solution
Perovskite (structure)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10773118 and 00036951
- Volume :
- 114
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Physics Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c1204fcb8da7f77611f7308651a14616
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5065655