Question

Why there is a peak in the curve at phase transformation of potassium niobate?

Answer 1

The phase transitions of KxNa1−xNbO3 (0.4 ≤ x ≤ 0.6) :- X-ray diffraction measurements were used to follow the change of the unit-cell parameters and the symmetry in the temperature range 100–800 K. At room temperature all the compositions exhibited a monoclinic metric of the unit cell with a small monoclinic distortion (90.32° ≤ β ≤ 90.34°). No major change of symmetry was evidenced in the investigated compositional range, which should be characteristic of the morphotropic phase-boundary region. With increasing temperature, the samples underwent first-order monoclinic–tetragonal and tetragonal–cubic transitions. Only the potassium-rich phases were rhombohedral at 100 K.

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