Composition- and pressure-induced ferroelectric to antiferroelectric phase transitions in Sm-doped BiFeO3 system

Fei Xue, Linyun Liang, Yijia Gu, Ichiro Takeuchi, Sergei V. Kalinin, Long Qing Chen

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Article number012903
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume106
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 5 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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