Abstract
We perform a Raman scattering study to elucidate the mechanism of temperature independent dielectric response of Ba0.767Ca0.233TiO3 (BCTO-0.233) from a viewpoint of phonon dynamics. BCTO-0.233 remains tetragonal below Tc down to 3.5 K. Over-damped soft phonon observed in a pure BaTiO3 is found to become underdamped in BCTO-0.233, suggesting that local dipoles induced by Ca2+ off-centering suppress the hopping of Ti ions to reduce damping of the soft-mode. The temperature dependence of the soft-mode frequency agrees qualitatively with the dielectric permittivity through Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relationship, indicating that the dielectric response of BCTO-0.233 is governed by the soft-mode.
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