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Electric‐field‐induced internal deformation in piezoelectric BiB 3 O 6 crystals
Author(s) -
Schmidt O.,
Gorfman S.,
Pietsch U.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
crystal research and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1521-4079
pISSN - 0232-1300
DOI - 10.1002/crat.200800335
Subject(s) - electric field , piezoelectricity , diffraction , ferroelectricity , polar , crystallography , bragg peak , electric field gradient , lattice (music) , chemistry , condensed matter physics , bragg's law , deformation (meteorology) , crystal (programming language) , single crystal , materials science , physics , optics , dielectric , quantum mechanics , composite material , beam (structure) , optoelectronics , astronomy , computer science , acoustics , programming language
For the first time electric‐field‐induced atomic displacements (internal strains) in non‐ferroelectric polar BiB 3 O 6 single crystal plates (point symmetry 2) were investigated using X‐ray diffraction technique. The intensity variations of selected Bragg reflections were collected for three different orientations of the applied external electric field vector with respect to the crystal lattice and used for calculating the microscopic structural response of BiB 3 O 6 . Due to the limited number of the reflections providing measurable changes in Bragg intensities we restricted ourselves in analyzing the shift of the B 3 O 6 sublattice relative to the Bi one. In addition, we considered the deformation of the Bi‐O, B(1)‐O and B(2)‐O bond lengths and identified the [B(2)O 3 ] group as the most sensitive structural unit to an external electric perturbation. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)