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Chemical Synthesis of Porous Barium Titanate Thin Film and Thermal Stabilization of Ferroelectric Phase by Porosity-Induced Strain
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Antiferrodistortive reconstruction of the PbTiO(3)(001) surface
A Munkholm1, S K Streiffer, M V Ramana Murty
1Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
Abstract:
We present in situ x-ray scattering measurements of the surface structures of PbTiO(3) (001) in equilibrium with PbO vapor. At 875 to 1025 K, a reconstruction having c(2x2) symmetry is present under most conditions, while a 1 x 6 reconstruction occurs under PbO-poor conditions. The atomic structure of the c(2x2) phase is found to consist of a single layer of an antiferrodistortive structure with oxygen cages counter-rotated by 10 degrees about the titanium ions.
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