Ferroelectricity and a Soft Mode in Li<sub>2</sub>Ge<sub>7</sub>O<sub>15</sub>Crystal

Mitsuo Wada, Akikatzu Sawada, Yoshihiro Ishibashi

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan · 1981 · 50 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

It has been found that Li 2 Ge 7 O 15 crystal shows ferroelectric activity in the c direction below T c =283.5 K. The spontaneous polarization is about 0.02 µC/cm 2 at 276 K. By means of Raman scattering technique a totally symmetric soft mode, whose frequency becomes zero as the phase transition point is approached from below, has been found in the α c c spectra.

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