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Multiple Aging Mechanisms in Ferroelectric Deuterated Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate

Materials Science 2019-05-23 v2

Abstract

The anomalously large dielectric aging in ferroelectric partially deuterated potassium dihydrogen phosphate (DKDP) is found to have multiple distinct mechanisms. Two components cause decreases in dielectric response over a limited range of fields around the aging field. A large fraction of this aging occurs on time scales of ~1000s after a field change, as expected for a hydrogen/deuterium diffusion mechanism. A slower component can give almost complete loss of domain-wall dielectric response at the aging field after weeks of aging. There is also a particularly unusual aging in which the dielectric response increases with time after rapid cooling.

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@article{arxiv.1812.00451,
  title  = {Multiple Aging Mechanisms in Ferroelectric Deuterated Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate},
  author = {Gregory A. Fields and Samuel F. Cieszynski and Bo Zhao and Kidan A. Tadesse and Eugene V. Colla and M. B. Weissman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.00451},
  year   = {2019}
}

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31 typed pages including 11 figures