<p>Pressure applications can enable the tuning of atomic/defect ordering and provide access to new functional materials. Here, we report that pressure-induced structural transformation featuring disorder-order transition of both cations and vacancies in the 8-layer deficient hexagonal perovskite tantalate dielectrics Ba<sub>8</sub>ZnTa<sub>6</sub>O<sub>24</sub>, which transformed the structure from twin to shift and remarkably lowered the temperature coefficient of resonant frequency <i>τ</i><sub>f</sub> down to near zero (∼0.56 ppm/°C) from 38 ppm/°C for the twinned precursor. The atomic scale STEM-HAADF and EDS results confirm the ordering of Zn in the Ta host at the nanometer scale in the shifted material featuring well-ordered Ba<sub>8</sub>ZnTa<sub>6</sub>O<sub>24</sub> slabs intergrown with Ba<sub>3</sub>ZnTa<sub>2</sub>O<sub>9</sub> and Ba<sub>5</sub>Ta<sub>4</sub>O<sub>15</sub> monolayers and anti-phase grain boundaries as planar defects. The pressure-induced twin-shift structural transformation of Ba<sub>8</sub>ZnTa<sub>6</sub>O<sub>24</sub> features the rare constant concentration of the hexagonal stacked layers, which is allowed by the vacancy ordering at the central layers of face-shared octahedral (FSO) trimers avoiding the FSO <i>B-B</i> repulsion, and remarkably the faster cationic ordering kinetics compared with the 2:1 ordered complex perovskites. Although the inclusion of numerous planar defects and the oxidizable atomic defects led to significant <i>p</i>-type conduction and inhomogeneous electrical microstructures, resulting in an extraordinarily high extrinsic dielectric loss for the high-pressure shifted Ba<sub>8</sub>ZnTa<sub>6</sub>O<sub>24</sub> pellet, the intrinsically near-zero <i>τ</i><sub>f</sub> could make the shifted Ba<sub>8</sub>ZnTa<sub>6</sub>O<sub>24</sub> perovskite an ideal microwave dielectric resonator candidate if the defects could be eliminated.</p>

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Pressure-induced cation and vacancy disorder-order transition and near-zero τf in deficient hexagonal perovskite Ba8ZnTa6O24 dielectrics

  • Bin Zheng,
  • Ruiwen Ji,
  • Cécile Genevois,
  • Wenda Zhang,
  • Xing Ming,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Mathieu Allix,
  • Congling Yin,
  • Xiaojun Kuang,
  • Xianran Xing

摘要

Pressure applications can enable the tuning of atomic/defect ordering and provide access to new functional materials. Here, we report that pressure-induced structural transformation featuring disorder-order transition of both cations and vacancies in the 8-layer deficient hexagonal perovskite tantalate dielectrics Ba8ZnTa6O24, which transformed the structure from twin to shift and remarkably lowered the temperature coefficient of resonant frequency τf down to near zero (∼0.56 ppm/°C) from 38 ppm/°C for the twinned precursor. The atomic scale STEM-HAADF and EDS results confirm the ordering of Zn in the Ta host at the nanometer scale in the shifted material featuring well-ordered Ba8ZnTa6O24 slabs intergrown with Ba3ZnTa2O9 and Ba5Ta4O15 monolayers and anti-phase grain boundaries as planar defects. The pressure-induced twin-shift structural transformation of Ba8ZnTa6O24 features the rare constant concentration of the hexagonal stacked layers, which is allowed by the vacancy ordering at the central layers of face-shared octahedral (FSO) trimers avoiding the FSO B-B repulsion, and remarkably the faster cationic ordering kinetics compared with the 2:1 ordered complex perovskites. Although the inclusion of numerous planar defects and the oxidizable atomic defects led to significant p-type conduction and inhomogeneous electrical microstructures, resulting in an extraordinarily high extrinsic dielectric loss for the high-pressure shifted Ba8ZnTa6O24 pellet, the intrinsically near-zero τf could make the shifted Ba8ZnTa6O24 perovskite an ideal microwave dielectric resonator candidate if the defects could be eliminated.