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OFF-CENTER FLUORIDE DEFECTS IN ALKALI-BROMIDES AND -IODIDES
J. Wahl, A. Gongora, F. Lüty
To cite this version:
J. Wahl, A. Gongora, F. Lüty. OFF-CENTER FLUORIDE DEFECTS IN ALKALI- BROMIDES AND -IODIDES. Journal de Physique Colloques, 1976, 37 (C7), pp.C7-271-C7-271.
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JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE Colloque C7, suppliment au no 12, Tome 37, Dtcembre 1976, page C7-271
OFF-CENTER FLUORIDE DEFECTS IN ALKALI-BROMIDES AND -IODIDES (*)
J. WAHL (**), A. GONGORA (***) and F. LUTY
Physics Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S . A.
Abstract. - A comprehensive study was performed in the sodium-, potassium-, and rubidium- bromides and -iodides for possible off-center effects of substitutional F- defects, using dielectric and Kerr-effect techniques. While normal centro-symmetric positions were found for F- in NaI, KBr and RbBr, a paraelectric behaviour
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scaling with the F- content - was detected in KI, RbI and NaBr [I], indicating off-center positions for the fluoride ions. A<
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symmetry for the off- center defects was verified in all three cases by the anisotropy of the Kerr-effect and by dielectric measurements under stress of various symmetry. The temperature dependence of the optical and dielectric results yields a Curie-law (EIT) behaviour of the dipole alignment. The reorientation kinetics of the F- off-center ions was studied in detail by the rise- and decay-time of the Kerr-effect and by dielectric loss. The results show in all three cases predominant 90° reorientation at the lowesf temperatures, which changes for higher Tto a 60° reorientation process. A discussion in terms of the elastic dressing model will be given.(*) Supported by NSF Grant # DMR 74-02516-A02.
(**) Present address : MPI Festkorperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany.
(***) Present address : Instituto Politecnico National, Mexico.
References
[I] < 110 > Off-center properties were previously reported for NaBr : F- by ROLLEFSON, R. J., Phys. Rev. B 5 (1972) 3235.
DISCUSSION
F. BBNIERE. - I guess that the reported contents in J. WAHL.
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We d o not observe any clusters or fluoride ions (10-3-10-4) are over the solubility limit precipitates. The dipole contribution to the dielectric at the temperatures under consideration (1-10 K). constant and the Kerr effect scale with concentration.Does this not give rise t o any additional effects in the A single Debye loss peak is observed which has less dielectric loss or dynamic Kerr effect measurements than 2 orders of magnitude halfwidth. The transient due to formation of clusters or precipitates ? Kerr-effect can be fitted with a single relaxation time.
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