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Studies on Local Structural Inhomogeneity and Origin of Ferroelectricity in Yttrium chromite Ceramics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2016

Venkateswara rao Mannepalli  and
Ranjith Ramadurai
Venkateswara rao Mannepalli
Affiliation:
Department of Materials science and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy, Telangana, India - 502285
Ranjith Ramadurai*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials science and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy, Telangana, India - 502285
*
*Corresponding author: ranjith@iith.ac.in
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Abstract

YCrO3 (YCO) is known to be a multiferroic with orthorhombic, Pnma, structure with center of inversion. However, the local structural inhomogeneity in this compound is believed to give rise to ferroelectric behavior. In this study we explore high temperature Raman investigations of YCO and observed that one of its Raman mode B3g (3) (CrO6 Octahedral tilt mode) softens around the structural phase transition which could be the origin of ferroelectric nature in YCO. In addition, we substitute bismuth (Bi) in YCO to understand the structural distortions that lead to local structural inhomogeneity. Besides B3g (3) mode softening with composition and high temperature studies in Y1-xBixCrO3 the study reveals the structural distortions and the structural tunability Bi offers in such systems.

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Raman spectroscopyferroelectricitychemical substitution
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MRS Advances , Volume 1 , Issue 9: Electronics and Photonics , 2016 , pp. 609 - 614
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2016 

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