Reactive intermediate phase cold sintering in strontium titanate

Phase Transitions in Strontium Titanate

Strontium Titanate SrTiO3 (STO) is known to undergo an antiferrodistortive transition from cubic to tetragonal phase at Tc ≈ 105K, and classical to quantum paraelectric phase transition at Tq ≈ 37K. This paper is intended to use Landau Theory to explore these two phase transitions of STO, as well as some experimental techniques to examine this model.

Persistent photoconductivity in strontium titanate.

Persistent photoconductivity was observed in strontium titanate (SrTiO(3)) single crystals. When exposed to sub-bandgap light (2.9 eV or higher) at room temperature, the free-electron concentration increases by over 2 orders of magnitude. After the light is turned off, the enhanced conductivity persists for several days, with negligible decay. From positron lifetime measurements, the persistent...

Formation of Strontium Titanate Bicrystal by the Spark Plasma Sintering Method

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is a technique used for enhanced consolidation of powdered compacts by utilization of pulsed direct current and high uniaxial pressure. Physical mechanisms for densification of these powders as well as subsequent grain growth anomalies are debated in literature [1]. Limited information is available regarding the influence of electric fields on grain boundary formati...

Multiferroic domain dynamics in strained strontium titanate.

Multiferroicity can be induced in strontium titanate by applying biaxial strain. Using optical second harmonic generation, we report a transition from 4/mmm to the ferroelectric mm2 phase, followed by a transition to a ferroelastic-ferroelectric mm2 phase in a strontium titanate thin film. Piezoelectric force microscopy is used to study ferroelectric domain switching. Second harmonic generation...

Wulff shape of strontium titanate nanocuboids