Perovskite Essay

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The perovskite materials are of considerable technological importance, particularly with regard to physical properties such as pyro and piezoelectricity , dielectric susceptibility, linear and nonlinear optic effects. Many of these properties are gross effects, varying enormously from one perovskite to another and differences in crystal structures are hardly apparent . Effects of the impending transition are evident in some of the crystal properties at temperatures at least a few degrees away from Tc . Substances BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 have very high values of the permittivity due to low frequency of soft mode . It may be inferred that at room temperature BaTiO3 exhibits number of advantages over the other ferroelectrics such as a high mechanical strength , resistance to heat (due to positive temperature coefficient restivity , PTCR ) and moisture , presence of ferroelectric properties with in a broad range of temperature (its Curie point is high ≈ 400 K ) and ease of manufacturing . The presence of an abnormally high permittivity in BaTiO3 is connected with the ‘looseness’ of the crystal lattice of this substance . ( The sum of the atomic radii of titanium and oxygen ions 1.96 is less than the distance between these ions in the lattice 1.99 . The compression of the structure when atom of Ba is replaced by that of Sr drastically reduces dielectric constant and the temperature of the Curie point ) .

Barium strontium titanate (BaxSr1-xTiO3 ) is a ferroelectric solid solution material which exhibits high dielectric constant and Ba/Sr composition dependent Curie temperature Tc . It is a perovskites based ferroelectric and one of the most studied ferroelectric material, exhibiting normal, first order phase transi...

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... The influence of electric field on this mode also effects the interaction of soft modes with other modes in the presences of higher order anharmonic terms, thus giving electric field dependence of various properties . Soft mode frequency is held responsible for the dielectric and acoustic anomalies near the phase transition point.
It is also evident that the square of the temperature ,defect and field dependent soft mode frequency varies with the defect and electric field parameters in presence of anharmonicity . The presence of these effects stabilizes the soft mode frequency . The temperature dependent part of the effective soft mode frequency is due to defect . The influence of defect and electric field on this mode also affect the interaction of soft mode with other modes , thus giving rise to defect and field dependences of various dynamic properties .

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