Peculiarities of Dielectric Relaxation in DMAAS Ferroelectric Crystals
V. Kapustianika, Z. Czaplab and R. Czukwinskib,c
aFerroics Physics Laboratory, Physical Department, Lviv I. Franko National University, Dragomanova st. 19, UA-79005 Lviv, Ukraine
bInstitute of Experimental Physics, University of Wroc³aw, pl. M. Borna 9, 50-204 Wroc³aw, Poland
cLower Silesian University College of Education, Wagonowa 9, 53-609 Wroc³aw, Poland
Received: February 15, 2002; revised version June 17, 2002
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This paper presents the results of investigations of the dielectric properties of NH2(CH3)2Al(SO4)2x6H2O crystals performed in a wide frequency range. In particular, the temperature and frequency dependences of the dielectric permittivity were measured in the region of ferroelectric phase at different rates of temperature change. The thermal dipole relaxation with a critical slowing-down at Tc1 was observed at comparatively low frequencies of measuring field. The relaxation connected with the domain freezing takes place at still lower frequencies (below 100 kHz) and was found to be strongly dependent on the rate of the temperature change. It was shown that deuteration results in a noticeable change of the parameters characterising this process including the temperature of domain wall freezing.
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.102.365
PACS numbers: 64.70.--p, 77.84.--s