Origin of piezoelectricity for langasite A3Ga5SiO14 (A = La and Nd) under high pressure
✍ Scribed by N. Araki; H. Ohsato; K. Kakimoto; T. Kuribayashi; Y. Kudoh; H. Morikoshi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 603 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0955-2219
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✦ Synopsis
The origin of piezoelectricity for langasite stated by a previous article has been clarified from the crystal structure under high pressure. The crystal structure of langasite with trigonal symmetry has the special empty-spaces located between A-and B-sites which are two large cation sites. The empty-space works for piezoelectricity. When a force is applied to the [1 0 0] direction, piezoelectricity was produced by the formation of polarity due to the shift of the A-cation in the [1 0 0] direction towards empty-space and deformation of the A-decahedron in the [-1 0 0] direction. In spite of the deformation of the A-site, the atomic distance between A-and B-ions is not changed due to the electrostatic repulsion.
The empty-space plays a role keeping of the A-B adjacent atomic distance and decreasing the B-A atomic distance throughout the empty-space. Under high pressure, it was clarified that the linear compressibility of the a-direction including the empty-space is larger than that of the c-direction. This shows the empty-space is contributing to the piezoelectricity. Also, it was clarified that the compressibility of the bond distance between Aand B-cations is smaller than that of the bond distance between A-and B-cations over the empty-space.