Abstract
Mechanical measurements showed that the structural anomalous region of (formula presented) exists in the range between 175 and (formula presented) It was shown that the intermediate phase has a different mechanical behavior from both the paraelastic and ferroelastic phases, and has a strong bias-stress dependence. In this region, no domain structure could be observed by using a polarizing microscope, but it had a still switching behavior according to mechanical measurements. This suggests that there microdomains of a smaller size than several hundred nm still exist in the rhombohedral paraelastic phase.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-5 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue number | 18 |
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| State | Published - 2002 |