Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Local atomic order and hierarchical polar nanoregions in a classical relaxor ferroelectric

  • M. Eremenko,
  • V. Krayzman,
  • A. Bosak,
  • H. Y. Playford,
  • K. W. Chapman,
  • J. C. Woicik,
  • B. Ravel,
  • I. Levin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10665-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The understanding of relaxor ferroelectrics is hindered by the complexity of nanoscale perturbations of their structure. Here, a data set of independent techniques treated on common footing provides a multiscale description of atomic order which reconciles conflicting models derived from single methods.