作者: Bo Jiang , Tor Grande , Sverre M. Selbach
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.CHEMMATER.7B00276
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摘要: We investigate A-site cation ordering in the ferroelectric perovskite Bi0.5K0.5TiO3 (BKT) by density functional theory (DFT) calculations and synchrotron X-ray total scattering. Using BKT as a prototypical lead-free with mixed cations, we use combination of experiments to assess energetics resulting physical properties ordering. Ten different Bi/K configurations 2 × supercell were assessed real space pair distribution functions (PDFs) DFT calculations. None these identified particularly favorable from experiment or theory. Ferroelectric polarization calculated Berry phase method for all ten yields values 50–105 μC/cm2. This is significantly larger than previously reported experimental results range 22–49 μC/cm2, indicating that does not possess long-range order. Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) modeling scattering data 12 sup...