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Electro-optical properties of PMN-xPT compounds: Single crystals and transparent ferroelectric ceramic

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The electro-optical properties of the PMN-xPT single-crystal relaxor solid solutions with different PT contents (x = 6, 10, 13%) and the PLMN-25PT transparent ceramic with a La content of 3%, which has been synthesized for the first time, have been studied at room temperature. It has been shown that the dependence of the quadratic electro-optical coefficients on the PT concentration in single crystals passes through a maximum at x ∼ 13%. It has been revealed that, although the PT concentration in the PLMN-25PT ceramic is above 13%, this material exhibits the largest quadratic electro-optical coefficients and the lowest half-wave voltage among all the known relaxor systems. Possible origins of the above phenomena have been discussed.

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  1. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    L. S. Kamzina

  2. Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Ding-Xi Road, Shanghai, 200050, China

    Ruan Wei, G. Li, J. Zeng & A. Ding

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Road, Zhabei District, Shanghai, 200072, China

    Ruan Wei

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Original Russian Text © L.S. Kamzina, Ruan Wei, G. Li, J. Zeng, A. Ding, 2010, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2010, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 1999–2003.

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Kamzina, L.S., Wei, R., Li, G. et al. Electro-optical properties of PMN-xPT compounds: Single crystals and transparent ferroelectric ceramic. Phys. Solid State 52, 2142–2146 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783410100203

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