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Ferroelectrics; Green's function; soft mode; anharmonicity; dielectric loss

By adding cubic and quartic phonon anharmonic interactions in the pseudospin lattice coupled mode (PLCM) model for KDP-type crystals and using double-time temperature dependent Green's function method, expressions for soft mode frequency, dielectric constant and dielectric tangent loss are obtained. Using model parameters given by Ganguliet al [9] the dielectric losses are calculated for KDP and DKDP crystals. In the microwave frequency range an increase in frequency (1–35 GHz) is followed by an increase in dielectric tangent loss (1–35) at 98 K and (1–15) × 10⁻² at 333 K for KDP and DKDP crystals respectively. The dielectric tangent loss decreases from 0.052 to 0.042 for KDP crystals with increase in temperature from 130 to 170 K and for DKDP crystals it decreases from 0.0166 to 0.0074 with an increase in temperature from 230–343 K in their paraelectric phases at 10 GHz. This shows Curie-Weiss behavior of the dielectric tangent loss

Trilok Chandra Upadhyay¹ Birendra Singh Semwal¹

1. Physics Department, H N B Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), Uttaranchal - 246 174, India

Published

March 2003

Manuscript received

23 August 2001

Manuscript revised

12 August 2002

Accepted

21 August 2002