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Evidence for domain-type dynamics in the ergodic phase of the PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 relaxor ferroelectric

Alexander Tagantsev
1996
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Abstract

It was observed that the dielectric permittivity of PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 (PMN) relaxer ceramics increases with increasing amplitude of the applied ac field. A strong nonlinearity occurs at temperatures where the frequency dispersion of the dielectric response is observed. A similarity was found between the effects of the amplitude and frequency on the permittivity. It was shown that, taken together, these data evidence that the relaxation phenomena in PMN are controlled by domain-type dynamics rather than thermally activated flips of the local spontaneous polarization.

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Alexander Tagantsev
1996
Journal Articles

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/d7111cf3-43bc-4d3f-9a45-74229f9bd837

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Dielectric

In electromagnetism, a dielectric (or dielectric medium) is an electrical insulator that can be polarised by an applied electric field. When a dielectric material is placed in an electric field, electric charges do not flow through the material as they do in an electrical conductor, because they have no loosely bound, or free, electrons that may drift through the material, but instead they shift, only slightly, from their average equilibrium positions, causing dielectric polarisation.

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The relative permittivity (in older texts, dielectric constant) is the permittivity of a material expressed as a ratio with the electric permittivity of a vacuum. A dielectric is an insulating material, and the dielectric constant of an insulator measures the ability of the insulator to store electric energy in an electrical field. Permittivity is a material's property that affects the Coulomb force between two point charges in the material. Relative permittivity is the factor by which the electric field between the charges is decreased relative to vacuum.

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In electromagnetism, the absolute permittivity, often simply called permittivity and denoted by the Greek letter ε (epsilon), is a measure of the electric polarizability of a dielectric. A material with high permittivity polarizes more in response to an applied electric field than a material with low permittivity, thereby storing more energy in the material. In electrostatics, the permittivity plays an important role in determining the capacitance of a capacitor.

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