Origin and evolution of ferroelectricity in the layered rare-earth-titanate, R2Ti2O7, Carpy-Galy phases
| العنوان: | Origin and evolution of ferroelectricity in the layered rare-earth-titanate, R2Ti2O7, Carpy-Galy phases |
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| المؤلفون: | Núñez Valdez, Maribel, Spaldin, Nicola |
| المصدر: | Polyhedron, 171 Polyhedron |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Geometric ferroelectricity, Polarization, DFT |
| الوصف: | We report a systematic first-principles study based on density functional theory (DFT) of the structural and ferroelectric properties of the R2Ti2O7 perovskite-related oxides with R = La, Ce, Pr, and Nd. We show that, in all cases, the ferroelectric distortion to the ground-state polar P21structure from its parent cen-trosymmetric P21/m phase is driven by a single polar soft mode consisting of rotations and tilts of theTiO6 octahedra combined with displacements of the R ions. A secondary centrosymmetric distortion, which is stable in the parent structure, contributes substantially to the energy lowering of the ground state. We evaluate the trends in structure and polarization across the series as a function of R and reconcile discrepancies in reported values of polarization in the literature. Our results confirm that the family of R2Ti2O7 materials belong to the class of proper geometric ferroelectrics. Polyhedron, 171 ISSN:0277-5387 |
| وصف الملف: | application/application/pdf; application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0277-5387 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0b97c0215c90f79a6b5db89c8678c861Test https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/357249Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0b97c0215c90f79a6b5db89c8678c861 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 02775387 |
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