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Structural phase transformation and phase boundary/stability studies of field-cooled Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3O3)-32%PbTiO3 crystals

Hu Cao, Feiming Bai, Jiefang Li, D. Viehland, Guangyong Xu, H. Hiraka, G. Shirane

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0410740

Abstract

Structural phase transformations in (001)-oriented (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3O3)-32%PbTiO3 (PMN-x%PT) crystals have been investigated by x-ray diffraction. A C->T->MC sequence was observed in both the field-cooled (FC) and zero-field-cooled (ZFC) conditions. Most interestingly, an anomalous increase in the C->T phase boundary with increasing field has been observed, which is seemingly a common characteristic of crystals whose compositions are in the vicinity of the MPB, irrespective of the width of the T and MC phase regions.

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