Abstract
The ferroelectric orthorhombic to paraelectric tetragonal phase transition of SrBi2-xNdxNb2O9 (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2) layer-structured ceramics has been investigated by temperature-dependent spectroscopic ellipsometry. Based on the analysis of dielectric functions from 0 to 500 °C with double Tauc-Lorentz dispersion model, the interband transitions located at ultraviolet region have shown an abrupt variation near the Curie temperature. The changes of dielectric functions are mainly due to the thermal-optical and/or photoelastic effect. Moreover, the characteristic alteration in interband transitions can be ascribed to distortion of NbO6 octahedron and variation of hybridization between Bi 6s and O 2p states during the structure transformation.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 054107 |
| Journal | Journal of Applied Physics |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - 7 Feb 2014 |