Abstract
We investigated the grain size effect on the high temperature behaviour of PMN-35PT ceramics around the tetragonal–cubic phase transition using second harmonic generation (SHG) and dielectric spectroscopy. Our data revealed coexistence of the first-order ferroelectric phase transition and relaxor behaviour in the coarse grain (grain size ∼4 µm) µ_PMN-35PT. The phase transition is hindered and relaxor features prevail in the fine grain (grain size ∼150 nm) n_PMN-35PT ceramics. Effect of the grain-size reduction on the SHG and dielectric response could be attributed to stabilisation of intermediate domain configurations between the frozen polar nanoclusters and large ferroelectric domains and to the enhanced stability of polar nanoclusters in the fine grain ceramics.
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