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Emeritus Professor Mike Glazer

Emeritus Professor

Research theme

  • Quantum materials

Sub department

  • Condensed Matter Physics

Research groups

  • X-ray and neutron scattering
mike.glazer@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)72290
Clarendon Laboratory, room 164
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Crystallographic and optical study of LiNb1 − xTaxO3

Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 73:3 (2017) 498-506

Authors:

S Huband, DS Keeble, N Zhang, AM Glazer, A Bartasyte, PA Thomas
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Crystallographic and optical study of PbHfO3 crystals

Journal of Applied Crystallography International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 50:2 (2017) 378-384

Authors:

S Huband, AM Glazer, K Roleder, A Majchrowski, PA Thomas
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Relationship between the structure and optical properties of lithium tantalate at the zero-birefringence point

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 121:2 (2017)

Authors:

S Huband, DS Keeble, N Zhang, AM Glazer, A Bartasyte, PA Thomas
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FOURIER2D and FOURIER3D : programs to demonstrate Fourier synthesis in crystallography

Journal of Applied Crystallography International Union of Crystallography 49:6 (2016) 2276-2278
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Reconsidering the origins of Forsbergh birefringence patterns

Physical Review B American Physical Society 94:2 (2016) 024109

Authors:

Alina Schilling, Amit Kumar, Raymond GP McQuaid, Anthony Glazer, Pam A Thomas, J Marty Gregg

Abstract:

In 1949, Forsbergh, Jr. reported spontaneous spatial ordering in the birefringence patterns seen in flux-grown BaTiO3 crystals under the transmission polarized light microscope [Phys. Rev. 76, 1187 (1949)]. Stunningly regular square-net arrays were often only found within a finite temperature window and could be induced on both heating and cooling, suggesting genuine thermodynamic stability. At the time, Forsbergh rationalized the patterns to have resulted from the impingement of ferroelastic domains, creating a complex tessellation of variously shaped domain packets. However, no direct evidence for the intricate microstructural arrangement proposed by Forsbergh has subsequently been found. Moreover, there are no robust thermodynamic arguments to explain the finite region of thermal stability, its occurrence just below the Curie temperature, and the apparent increase in entropy associated with the loss of the Forsbergh pattern on cooling. Despite decades of research on ferroelectrics, this ordering phenomenon and its thermodynamic origin have hence remained a mystery. In this paper, we reexamine the microstructure of flux-grown BaTiO3 crystals, which show Forsbergh birefringence patterns. Given an absence of any obvious arrays of domain polyhedra or even regular shapes of domain packets, we suggest an alternative origin for the Forsbergh pattern in which sheets of orthogonally oriented ferroelastic stripe domains simply overlay one another. We show explicitly that the Forsbergh birefringence pattern occurs if the periodicity of the stripe domains is above a critical value. Moreover, by considering well-established semiempirical models, we show that the significant domain coarsening needed to generate the Forsbergh birefringence is fully expected in a finite window below the Curie temperature. We hence present a much more straightforward rationalization of the Forsbergh pattern than that originally proposed in which exotic thermodynamic arguments are unnecessary
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