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From normal ferroelectric transition to relaxor behavior in Aurivillius ferroelectric ceramics

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The influence of the barium concentration on the dielectric response of Sr1−x Ba x Bi2Nb2O9 system, with x = 0, 15, 30, 50, 70, 85, 100 at.%, has been studied. The barium concentration dependence of T m, as well as the temperature of the corresponding maximum for the real part of the dielectric permittivity, has suggested a cation site mixing among atomic positions, which has been supported by the structural analysis. A transition from normal ferroelectric–paraelectric phase transition to a relaxor behavior has been observed in the studied samples, when the barium concentration has increased. The relaxor behavior has been discussed.

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The authors wish to thank to the Third World Academy of Sciences (RG/PHYS/LA Nos. 99-050, 02-225 and 05-043), and to the ICTP, Trieste-Italy, for financial support of Latin-American Network of Ferroelectric Materials (NET-43). Thanks to CNPq and FAPEMIG agencies from Brazil. AP-B acknowledges to the Conseil Régional Languedoc-Roussillon for her invitation in the University of Nîmes, France. Thanks to the Embassy of France in Havana, Cuba, for financial support for the scientific cooperation between the University of Nîmes and the Havana University.

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  1. Facultad de Física-Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales, Universidad de La Habana, San Lázaro y L, 10400, Vedado. La Habana, Cuba

    Y. González-Abreu & A. Peláiz-Barranco

  2. Grupo de Ferroelétricos e Materiais Multifuncionais, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, 38400-902, Brazil

    J. D. S. Guerra

  3. University of Picardie Jules Verne, LPMC, 80039, Amiens Cedex, France

    Y. Gagou

  4. Department of Sciences and Arts, University of Nîmes, 30021 Nimes cedex 01; ICGM (UMR CNRS n° 5253), C2 M, 34095, Montpellier cedex 05, France

    P. Saint-Grégoire

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González-Abreu, Y., Peláiz-Barranco, A., Guerra, J.D.S. et al. From normal ferroelectric transition to relaxor behavior in Aurivillius ferroelectric ceramics. J Mater Sci 49, 7437–7444 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-014-8448-0

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