Fig. 4: Atomic-scale characterizations of phase separation in PZ. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Atomic-scale characterizations of phase separation in PZ.

From: Room-temperature stabilizing strongly competing ferrielectric and antiferroelectric phases in PbZrO3 by strain-mediated phase separation

Fig. 4

a [001]-projected HAADF image of (left) FiE-like and (right) AFE-like phase at the phase boundary region. The scale bar refers to 1 nm. The insets show Fourier transform images of two-phase regions with the scale bars of 2 1/nm. b Displacement mapping of Pb cations (see arrows), with respect to the atomic image in a. c The variation of atomic spacings (represented by circles) along the pair of red arrows in a. The mean values of \({{{\mbox{d}}}}_{010}\) for FiE- and AFE-like phases are indicated by a light red and blue horizontal dashed line, respectively. The phase boundary is marked by an oblique red dashed line in a and b, a vertical red dashed line in c, respectively.

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