Hierarchical domain structures associated with oxygen octahedra tilting patterns in lead-free (Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3
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Abstract Hierarchical domain structures associated with oxygen octahedra tilting patterns were observed in lead-free (Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3 ceramics using aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Three types of domains are induced by distinct mechanisms: the ‘orientation-domain’ is induced at micrometer scale formed by different tilting orientations of the oxygen octahedra, the ‘meso-chemical-domain’ occurs at a few tens of nanometer scale by chemical composition variation on the A-site in the ABO3 perovskite structure, and the ‘nano-cluster-region’ runs across several unit-cells with apparent A-site cation segregation with oxygen vacancies clustering around Na cations. Based on HRTEM amplitude contrast imaging (ACI), the correlation between the oxygen octahedral tilting pattern and compositional non-stoichiometry was established. The role of the hierarchical domain structure associated with the tilting patterns of the oxygen octahedra on the ferroelectric behavior of (Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3 is also discussed.
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