Role of oxygen vacancies in the coloration of 0.65Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.35PbTiO3 single crystals

✍ Scribed by Zhiguo Xia; Qiang Li; Ming Cheng

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 472 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0232-1300
• DOI: 10.1002/crat.200610857

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The coloration and oxygen vacancies in 0.65Pb(Mg~1/3~Nb~2/3~)O~3~‐0.35PbTiO~3~ (PMN‐PT(65/35)) (starting composition) single crystals grown by a so‐called modified Bridgman technique were investigated in this paper. Light yellow and dark brown colored crystals were generally observed for the typical as‐grown PMN‐PT(65/35) single crystals. X‐ray diffraction results demonstrated that they were both of pure perovskite structure, but good electric properties were only obtained for the light yellow crystal. X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to investigate the electronic structure of its components. The O 1s photoelectron spectra of the dark brown colored crystals located at the higher binding energy side, which meant the existence of the more oxygen vacancies. It accordingly led to the formation of the low valence cations associated with the coloration of the crystals, which is also testified by the obtained X‐ray photoelectron spectra of Ti and Nb. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)