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Surface displacements and surface charges on Ba2CuWO6 and Ba2Cu0.5Zn0.5WO6 ceramics induced by local electric fields investigated with scanning-probe microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2011

Ralf-Peter Herber  and
Gerold A. Schneider
Ralf-Peter Herber
Affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Ceramics, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany
Gerold A. Schneider*
Affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Ceramics, Hamburg University of Technology, 21073 Hamburg, Germany
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Ba2CuWO6 (BCW) was first synthesized in the mid 1960s, and it was predicted to be a ferroelectric material with a very high Curie temperature of 1200 °C [N. Venevtsev and A.G. Kapyshev: New ferroelectrics. Proc. Int. Meet. Ferroelectr.1, 261 (1966)]. Since then, crystallographic studies were performed on the compound with the result that its crystal structure is centrosymmetric. Thus for principal reason, BCW cannot be ferroelectric. That obvious contradiction was examined in this study. Disk-shaped ceramic samples of BCW and Ba2Cu0.5Zn0.5WO6 (BCZW) were prepared. Because of the low electrical resistivity of the ceramics, it was not possible to perform a typical polariszation hysteresis loop for characterization of ferroelectric properties. Scanning electron microscopy investigations strongly suggest that the reason for the conductivity is found in the impurities/precipitations within the microstructure of the samples. With atomic force microscopy (AFM) in piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) mode, it is possible to characterize local piezoelectricity by imaging the ferroelectric domains. Neither BCW nor BCZW showed any domain structure. Nevertheless, when local electric fields were applied to the surfaces of the ceramics topographic displacements, imaged with AFM, and surface charges, imaged with Kelvin probe force microscopy (KFM) and PFM, were measured and remained stable on the surface for the time of the experiment. Therefore BCW and BCZW are considered to be electrets and possibly relaxor ferroelectrics.

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CeramicFerroelectricScanning probe microscopy (SPM)
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 193 - 200
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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