Ferroelectric relaxors continue to be one of the most mysterious solid-state materials. Since
their discovery by Smolenskii and coworkers, there have been many attempts to understand …

Simultaneously integrating outstanding energy storage performance and good temperature
stability in advanced ferroelectrics is a promising strategy to boost the practical application …

Temporal behavior of ferroelectric ceramics during the polarization switching cannot be
satisfactorily explained by simple Debye or even stretched exponential laws. These …

In conventional knowledge, ferroelectric solid solutions were formed between members
belonging to the same crystal structure family. Since both tungsten bronze and perovskite …

Effects of oxygen vacancies on the dielectric, electrical, and ferroelectric properties of Ba 4
Nd 2 Fe 2 Nb 8 O 30 ceramics were investigated. A dielectric relaxation above T c can be …

The domain morphology of the disordered relaxor ferroelectric strontium barium niobate
doped with cerium, Sr 0.61− x Ba 0.39 Nb 2 O 6: C ex 3+, has been investigated by …

An open question in the kinetics of martensitic transformation is the microscopic mechanism
responsible for the evolution of a new phase. We have analyzed data from shocked …

Abstract Ferroelectric Sr 0.6 Ba 0.4 Nb 2 O 6 (SBN) shows typical unfilled tetragonal
tungsten bronze structure where 1/6 A sites and all C sites are unoccupied. The presence of …

Scanning force microscopy in the dynamic contact mode with resonance enhanced domain
contrast is applied to study in situ pattern formation and relaxation kinetics of ferroelectric …

Systematic studies of ferroelectric domain reversal of strontium barium niobate (⁠ Sr 0.61 Ba
0.4 Nb 2 O 6 or SBN: 61) single crystals by electric-field poling using liquid electrodes are …