Grain‐Size Effects on Diffuse Phase Transitions of Sol‐Gel Prepared Barium Titanate Ceramics
- 1 May 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Ceramic Society
- Vol. 78 (5) , 1343-1346
Abstract
Barium titanate ceramic samples, obtained by sol‐gel methods, having different grain sizes have been analyzed by diffuse phase transition techniques. We performed a study of the influence of each method on the phase transition interval and on the Landau parameters of the ferroelectric phase transition of these materials. The results show the existence of a relationship between the diffuse character of the transition and the grain size of the sample. The method of fitting dielectric data presented here allows us to compare ceramics with single crystals and then analyze the sol‐gel process used to obtain them.Keywords
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