%0 Journal Article
%T Pressure dependence of the monoclinic phase in (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 solid solutions
%A Muhtar Ahart
%A Stanislav Sinogeikin
%A Olga Shebanova
%A Daijo Ikuta
%A Zuo-Guang Ye
%A Ho-kwang Mao
%A R. E. Cohen
%A Russell J. Hemley
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.224111
%X We combine high-pressure x-ray diffraction, high-pressure Raman scattering, and optical microscope to investigate a series of PMN-xPT solid solutions (x=0.2, 0.3, 0.33, 0.35, 0.37, 0.4) in diamond anvil cells up to 20 GPa at 300 K. The Raman spectra show a peak centered at 380 cm-1 above 6 GPa for all samples, in agreement with previous observations. X-ray diffraction measurements are consistent with this spectral change indicating structural phase transition; we find that the triplet at the pseudo cubic (220) Bragg peak merges into a doublet above 6 GPa. Our results indicate that the morphotropic phase boundary region (x=0.33 to 0.37) with the presence of monoclinic symmetry persists up to 7 GPa. The pressure dependence of ferroelectric domains in PMN-0.32PT single crystals was observed using a polarizing optical microscope. The domain wall density decreases with pressure and domains disappear at a modest pressure of 3 GPa. We propose a pressure-composition phase diagram for PMN-xPT solid solutions.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3260v1