Abstract
Electric-field tunability of the dielectric properties of potassium tantalate single crystal was studied by terahertz spectroscopy in a broad temperature range (40-250 K). Complex-valued terahertz transmission spectra of samples were measured with an external electric field perpendicular to the sample surface and parallel to the terahertz wave-vector. We found that the ferroelectric soft mode hardening is fully responsible for the observed electricfield-induced changes in the spectra and no signature of a central mode was detected. We determined the anharmonic properties of the soft-mode potential in the mean field approximation. The observed behavior was compared with that previously reported for SrTiO3 single crystals.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Chemistry and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry |
| ISSN: | 0022-3727 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 48429 |
| Date Deposited: | 27. Apr 2018, 08:15 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:26 |
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