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@ARTICLE{Jia:860286,
author = {Jia, Chun-Lin and Jin, Lei and Chen, Yue-Hua and Urban,
Knut and Wang, Hong},
title = {{A}tomic-scale evidence for displacive disorder in bismuth
zinc niobate pyrochlore},
journal = {Ultramicroscopy},
volume = {192},
issn = {0304-3991},
address = {Amsterdam},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-01061},
pages = {57 - 68},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Pyrochlores characterized by the chemical formula A2B2O7
form an extended class of materials with interesting
physical and chemical properties. The compound
Bi1.5ZnNb1.5O7 is prototypical. Its excellent dielectric
properties make it attractive, e.g. for capacitors, tunable
microwave devices and electric-energy storage equipment.
Bi1.5ZnNb1.5O7 shows an intriguing frequency-dispersive
dielectric relaxation at 50 K ≤ T ≤ 250 K,
which has been studied intensively but is still not fully
understood. In this first study on a pyrochlore by
atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy we
observe the Bi atoms on A sites since, due to their low
nuclear charge, the contribution of Zn atoms to the contrast
of these sites is negligible. We find in our and [112]
oriented images that the position of the atomic intensity
maxima do not coincide with the projected Wyckoff positions
of the basic pyrochlore lattice. This supplies atomic-scale
evidence for displacive disorder on split A-type sites. The
Bi atoms are sessile, only occasionally we observe in time
sequences of images jumps between individual split-site
positions. The apertaining jump rate of the order of
0.1–1 Hz is by ten orders of magnitude lower than the
values derived in the literature from Arrhenius plots of the
low-temperature dielectric relaxation data. It is argued
that these jumps are radiation induced. Therefore our
observations are ruling out a contribution of Bi-atom jumps
to low-temperature dielectric A sites-related relaxation. It
is suggested that this relaxation is mediated by jumps of Zn
atoms.},
cin = {ER-C-1},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ER-C-1-20170209},
pnm = {143 - Controlling Configuration-Based Phenomena (POF3-143)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-143},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:29890501},
UT = {WOS:000437102000008},
doi = {10.1016/j.ultramic.2018.05.009},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/860286},
}