Structural Origin of Recovered Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 Nanoparticles

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August 24, 2023

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Bruce D. Ravel, Trevor Tyson, Han Zhang, Sizhan Liu, SANJIT GHOSE, U.J. Idehenre, Yury Barnakov, S.A. Basun, D.R. Evans

Abstract

Nanoscale BaTiO3 particles (10 nm) prepared by ball-milling a mixture of oleic acid and heptane have been reported to have an electric polarization several times larger than that for bulk BaTiO3. In this work, detailed local, intermediate, and long-range structural studies are combined with spectroscopic measurements to develop a model structure of these materials. The X-ray spectroscopic measurements reveal large Ti off-centering as the key factor producing the large spontaneous polarization in the nanoparticles. Temperature-dependent lattice parameter changes reveal the sharpening of the structural phase transitions in these BaTiO3 nanoparticles compared to the pure nanoparticle systems. Sharp crystalline-type peaks in the barium oleate Raman spectra suggest that this component in the composite core-shell matrix, a product of mechanochemical synthesis, stabilizes an enhanced polar structural phase of the BaTiO3 core nanoparticles.

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Physical Review B

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EXAFS, ferroelectricity, barium titanate, nanoparticle

Citation

Ravel, B. , Tyson, T. , Zhang, H. , Liu, S. , GHOSE, S. , Idehenre, U. , Barnakov, Y. , Basun, S. and Evans, D. (2023), Structural Origin of Recovered Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 Nanoparticles, Physical Review B, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936037 (Accessed April 28, 2024)