International Tables for Crystallography (2013). Vol. D. ch. 3.4, pp. 484-559
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Chapter 3.4. Domain structures

Contents

3.4. Domain structures (pp. 484-559) | html | pdf | chapter contents |
V. Janovec and J. Přívratská
- 3.4.1. Introduction (pp. 484-486) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.1.1. Basic concepts (pp. 484-485) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.1.2. Scope of this chapter (pp. 485-486) | html | pdf |
- 3.4.2. Domain states (pp. 486-505) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.2.1. Principal and basic domain states (pp. 486-490) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.2.2. Degenerate (secondary) domain states, partition of principal domain states (pp. 490-493) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.2.2.1. Ferroelastic domain state (pp. 491-492) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.2.2.2. Ferroelectric domain states (p. 492) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.2.2.3. Domain states with the same stabilizer (pp. 492-493) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.2.3. Property tensors associated with ferroic domain states (pp. 493-495) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.2.4. Synoptic table of ferroic transitions and domain states (pp. 495-497) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.2.4.1. Explanation of Table 3.4.2.7 (pp. 496-497) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.2.5. Basic (microscopic) domain states and their partition into translation subsets (pp. 497-505) | html | pdf |
- 3.4.3. Domain pairs: domain twin laws, distinction of domain states and switching (pp. 505-528) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.3.1. Domain pairs and their symmetry, twin law (pp. 506-508) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.3.2. Twinning group, distinction of two domain states (pp. 508-510) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.3.3. Switching of ferroic domain states (pp. 510-511) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.3.4. Classes of equivalent domain pairs and their classifications (pp. 511-512) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.3.5. Non-ferroelastic domain pairs: twin laws, domain distinction and switching fields, synoptic table (pp. 512-515) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.3.5.1. Explanation of Table 3.4.3.4 (pp. 512-515) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.3.6. Ferroelastic domain pairs (pp. 515-528) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.3.6.1. Spontaneous strain (pp. 516-517) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.3.6.2. Equally deformed planes of a ferroelastic domain pair (pp. 517-518) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.3.6.3. Disoriented domain states, ferroelastic domain twins and their twin laws (pp. 518-521) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.3.6.4. Ferroelastic domain pairs with compatible domain walls, synoptic table (pp. 521-527) | html | pdf |
      - 3.4.3.6.4.1. Explanation of Table 3.4.3.6 (pp. 526-527) | html | pdf |
    - 3.4.3.6.5. Ferroelastic domain pairs with no compatible domain walls, synoptic table (pp. 527-528) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.3.7. Domain pairs in the microscopic description (p. 528) | html | pdf |
- 3.4.4. Domain twins and domain walls (pp. 528-539) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.4.1. Formal description of simple domain twins and planar domain walls of zero thickness (pp. 528-529) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.4.2. Layer groups (pp. 529-530) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.4.3. Symmetry of simple twins and planar domain walls of zero thickness (pp. 530-533) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.4.4. Non-ferroelastic domain twins and domain walls (pp. 533-535) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.4.5. Ferroelastic domain twins and walls. Ferroelastic twin laws (p. 535) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.4.6. Domain walls of finite thickness – continuous description (pp. 535-538) | html | pdf |
  - 3.4.4.7. Microscopic structure and symmetry of domain walls (p. 538) | html | pdf |
- 3.4.5. Glossary (p. 539) | html | pdf |
- References | html | pdf |
- Figures
  - Fig. 3.4.1.1. Domain structure of tetragonal barium titanate (BaTiO₃) (p. 484) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.1.2. Domain structure of a BaGa₂O₄ crystal seen by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (p. 484) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.1.3. Elastic hysteresis of ferroelastic lead phosphate Pb₃(PO₄)₂ (Salje, 1990) (p. 485) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.1.4. Transmission electron microscopy image of the ferroelastic domain structure in a YBa₂Cu₃O_7−y crystal (p. 485) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.1.5. Non-ferroelastic ferroelectric domains in triglycine sulfate (TGS) revealed by a liquid-crystal method (p. 485) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.2.1. Hierarchy in domain-structure analysis (p. 487) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.2.2. Exploded view of single-domain states $[{\bf S}_1]$ , $[{\bf S}_2]$ , $[{\bf S}_3]$ and $[{\bf S}_4 ]$ (solid rectangles with arrows of spontaneous polarization) formed at a phase transition from a parent phase with symmetry $[G=4_z/m_zm_xm_{xy} ]$ to a ferroic phase with symmetry (p. 487) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.2.3. Oriented symmetry operations of the cubic group $[m\bar3m]$ and of its subgroups (p. 495) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.2.4. Oriented symmetry operations of the hexagonal group and of its hexagonal and trigonal subgroups (p. 496) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.2.5. Four basic single-domain states $[{{\sf S}_1}= 1_1]$ , $[{{\sf S}_2}= 1_2]$ , $[{{\sf S}_3}= 2_1]$ , $[{{\sf S}_4}= 2_2 ]$ of the ferroic phase of a calomel (Hg₂Cl₂) crystal (p. 505) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.1. Transposable domain pairs (p. 507) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.2. Non-transposable domain pairs (p. 507) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.3. Domain structure in lead germanate observed using a polarized-light microscope (p. 515) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.4. Temperature dependence of lattice parameters in leucite (p. 516) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.5. Two ways of constructing a ferroelastic domain twin (p. 517) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.6. High-resolution electron microscopy image of a ferroelastic twin in the orthorhombic phase of WO₃ (p. 519) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.7. Ferroelastic twins in a very thin YBa₂Cu₃O_7−δ crystal observed in a polarized-light microscope (p. 519) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.8. Exploded view of four ferroelastic twins with disoriented ferroelastic domain states $[{\bf R}_1^+, {\bf R}_2^-]$ and $[{\bf R}_1^-, {\bf R}_2^+ ]$ formed from a single-domain pair $[({\bf S}_1,{\bf S}_2)]$ (p. 520) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.9. Splitting of diffraction spots at a tetragonal-to-orthorhombic transition (p. 520) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.3.10. Domain pairs in calomel (p. 528) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.1. Symbols of a simple twin (p. 529) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.2. A simple twin under the action of four types of operation that do not change the orientation of the wall plane p (p. 531) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.3. Engineered periodic non-ferroelastic ferroelectric stripe domain structure within a lithium tantalate crystal with symmetry descent $[\bar 6\supset 3 ]$ (p. 534) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.4. Microscopic structure of two domain states and two parallel mutually reversed domain walls in the $[\alpha]$ phase of quartz (p. 534) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.5. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of the incommensurate triangular ( modulated) phase of quartz (p. 535) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.6. Profile of the one-component order parameter $[\eta(\xi)]$ in a symmetric wall (S) (p. 536) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.7. Profiles of the one-component order parameter $[\eta(\xi)]$ in a symmetric wall (solid curve) and in the reversed wall (dotted curve) (p. 537) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.8. Profiles of the one-component order parameter $[\eta(\xi)]$ in an asymmetric wall (solid curve) and in the reversed asymmetric wall (dotted curve) (p. 537) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.9. Profiles of the one-component order parameter $[\eta(\xi)]$ in an asymmetric wall (solid curve) and in the reversed asymmetric wall (dotted curve) (p. 537) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.10. A profile of the second order parameter component in a degenerate domain wall (p. 538) | html | pdf |
  - Fig. 3.4.4.11. Microscopic structure of a ferroelastic domain wall in calomel (p. 539) | html | pdf |
- Tables
  - Table 3.4.2.1. Left and double cosets, principal and secondary domain states and their tensor parameters for the phase transition with $[G=4_z/m_zm_xm_{xy} ]$ and (p. 489) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.2.2. Crystal systems, holohedries, crystal families and number of spontaneous strain components (p. 491) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.2.3. Classification of ferroic phases according to ferroelastic and ferroelectric domain states (p. 492) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.2.4. Morphic properties, tensor parameters, order parameters and domain states (p. 494) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.2.5. Symbols of symmetry operations of the point group $[m\bar 3m ]$ (p. 495) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.2.6. Symbols of symmetry operations of the point group (p. 496) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.2.7. Group–subgroup symmetry descents $[G \supset F_1]$ (pp. 498-502) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.3.1. Classification of domain pairs, ferroic phases and of switching (state shifts) (p. 510) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.3.2. Four types of domain pairs (p. 511) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.3.3. Decomposition of into left cosets of (p. 512) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.3.4. Non-ferroelastic domain pairs, domain twin laws and distinction of non-ferroelastic domains (pp. 513-514) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.3.5. Property tensors and switching fields (p. 514) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.3.6. Ferroelastic domain pairs and twins with compatible domain walls (pp. 521-526) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.3.7. Ferroelastic domain pairs with no compatible domain walls (p. 527) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.4.1. Crystallographic layer groups with continuous translations (p. 530) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.4.2. Action of four types of operations g on a twin $[({\bf S}_1 |{\bf n}| {\bf S}_j) ]$ (p. 531) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.4.3. Classification of domain walls and simple twins (p. 532) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.4.4. Symmetries of non-ferroelastic domain twins and walls (p. 533) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.4.5. Symmetry properties of domain walls in α quartz (p. 534) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.4.6. Symmetry properties of ferroelastic domain twins and compatible domain walls (p. 536) | html | pdf |
  - Table 3.4.4.7. Sectional layer groups and twin (wall) symmetries of the twin $[({\sf S}_1|[100];s{\bf d}|{\sf S}_3)]$ in a calomel crystal (p. 539) | html | pdf |