Abstract
A three-dimensional phenomenological model is proposed to describe both ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity based on the Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire theory. Its application to the multiferroic Sm-doped BiFeO3 system describes the temperature-, pressure-, and composition-induced ferroelectric to antiferroelectric phase transitions. The constructed temperature-composition and temperature-pressure phase diagrams show that compressive hydrostatic pressure and Sm doping have similar effects on the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phase transitions. It is also indicated from the temperature-pressure phase diagram that the experimentally observed phase of BiFeO3 under the hydrostatic pressure from 3 GPa to 10 GPa is a PbZrO3-like antiferroelectric phase.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 012903 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 106 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 5 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)