Table 1775. Angles between polarization vectors of adjacent domains in various crystalline phases in ferroelectrics.
| Crystalline phase |
Domains |
Polarization vectors |
Angles |
Examples (see more at page1805) |
Remarks |
Reference |
| Monoclinic |
|
|
Cannot be determined exactly due to the irregularity of the walls |
Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 – PbTiO3 (Pm phase) |
|
|
| Orthorhombic |
|
Lies along one of the face diagonals of the original cube |
60° |
BaTiO3, KNbO3 |
Described as a distortion of cubic cell |
[6] |
| |
90° |
BaTiO3 |
[6] |
| |
120° |
BaTiO3 |
[6] |
| |
180° |
BaTiO3 |
[1, 2, 3, 6] |
| Rhombohedral |
|
|
71° |
PbZrO3 |
|
[7] |
| |
|
109° |
PbZrO3 |
|
[7] |
| Tetragonal |
a-domain, c-domain & b-domain. a–c-domain wall |
|
90° |
Twinned tetragonal BaTiO3 perovskite type at the first-order phase transition |
|
[5] |
| |
180° |
|
[4, 5] |
[1] E. Wiessendanger, Czech. J. Phys. B 23 (1973) 91-99.
[2] M. Ahtee and A.M. Glazer, Acta Cryst. A32 (1976) 434-446.
[3] Jeong-Ho Cho, Yong-Hyun Lee and Byung-Ik Kim, Domain structure of orthorhombic (Li,K,Na)NbO3 ceramics, Journal of Ceramic Processing Research, 11(2), 237-240 (2010).
[4] Jeong-Ho Cho, Yong-Hyun Lee, Kyu-Suk Han, Myoung-Pyo Chun, Joong-Hee Nam and Byung-Ik Kim, Effect of Domain Size on the Coercive Field of Orthorhombic (Li, K, Na)NbO3 Ceramics, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 57(4), 2010, 971-974.
[5] Fesenko EG, Gavrilyachenko VG, Semenchev AF, (1990) Domain Structure of Multiaxial Ferroelectric Crystals. (Rostov University Press, Rostov-on-Don (in Russian), 1990).
[6] Tsuda, K., Sano, R. & Tanaka, M. Nanoscale local structures of rhombohedral symmetry in
the orthorhombic and tetragonal phases of BaTiO3 studied by convergent-beam electron diffraction. Phys. Rev. B 86, 214106 (2012).
[7] Topolov VYu, Balyunis LE, Turik AV, Bah IS, Fesenko OE, Interphase boundaries at cubicrhombohedral
phase transition in PbZrO3 crystals. Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Physics 56:1588–1593 (1992).
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