Size Effects in Radiospectroscopy Spectra of Ferroelectric Nanopowders

• Authors: M. Glinchuk , I. Kondakova , V. Laguta , A. Slipenyuk , I. Bykov , A. Ragulya , V. Klimenko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The theoretical and experimental investigation of ferroelectric nanopowders is performed. The manifestation in radiospectroscopy spectra of size driven ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition at some critical particle average size R = R_c was the main goal of the consideration. In theoretical part the size effect for the materials with ferroelectric tetragonal phase at room temperature and cubic paraelectric phase was considered allowing for the spontaneous polarization inhomogeneity inside a particle and distribution of particle sizes. In ESR the transformation of the spectra from tetragonal symmetry to cubic symmetry lines with decrease in nanoparticle sizes was calculated. The method of R_c value extraction from the ratio of the different symmetry lines intensities in the absorption spectra was proposed. Measurements of Fe^{3+} ESR spectra in nanopowder of BaTiO_3 were carried out at room temperature. The samples were prepared by rate-controlled method with different particle sizes, which depend on annealing temperature. The decrease in intensity of tetragonal symmetry ESR lines of Fe^{3+} and appearance of cubic symmetry line with asymmetry of the shoulders was observed with the average sizes decrease with complete disappearance of tetragonal spectrum at R ≤ 40 nm. The comparison of the theory with experiment was carried out. The theory fits experimental data pretty good. The value of critical size R_c ≈ 40 nm was extracted from ESR data. The asymmetry and broadening of right hand side shoulder of ESR cubic symmetry line was shown to be related to contribution of paramagnetic centers in the vicinity of the particles surface with lower than cubic symmetry. The deconvolution of the cubic line allowed to show that this region size is about 3 nm.

Keywords

EN

73.22.-f; 61.72.Hh; 68.35.Rh

Discipline

• 73.22.-f: Electronic structure of nanoscale materials and related systems
• 61.72.Hh: Indirect evidence of dislocations and other defects (resistivity, slip, creep, strains, internal friction, EPR, NMR, etc.)
• 68.35.Rh: Phase transitions and critical phenomena

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 108
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 47-60

Dates

published

2005-07

received

2005-04-24

Contributors

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M. Glinchuk

• Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo, 3, 03680 Kiev-142, Ukraine

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I. Kondakova

• Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo, 3, 03680 Kiev-142, Ukraine

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V. Laguta

• Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo, 3, 03680 Kiev-142, Ukraine

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A. Slipenyuk

• Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo, 3, 03680 Kiev-142, Ukraine

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I. Bykov

• Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo, 3, 03680 Kiev-142, Ukraine

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A. Ragulya

• Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo, 3, 03680 Kiev-142, Ukraine

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V. Klimenko

• Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo, 3, 03680 Kiev-142, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.108.47