[HTML][HTML] Displacive or order-disorder phase transition? The H-bond dynamics in multicaloric ammonium sulfate

LM Malec, MZ Brela, KM Stadnicka - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, ferroic materials with giant caloric responses emerged as a possible
environmental-friendly alternative for the currently used cooling devices. In our work, we …

Unmasking the Mechanism of Structural Para- to Ferroelectric Phase Transition in (NH4)2SO4

LM Malec, M Gryl, KM Stadnicka - Inorganic Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
New nontoxic and biocompatible ferroelectric materials are a subject undergoing intense
study. One of the most promising research branches is focused on H-bonded organic or …

Electrocaloric materials and devices

S Crossley - 2013 - repository.cam.ac.uk
The temperature and/or entropy of electrically polarisable materials can be altered by
changing electric field E. Research into this electrocaloric (EC) effect has focussed on …

Phase-transition mechanism in (

DDS Meneses, G Hauret, P Simon, F Bréhat, B Wyncke - Physical Review B, 1995 - APS
The temperature dependence of the midinfrared reflectivity spectra of ammonium sulfate is
reported for the two polarizations a and c of the electric field of the infrared wave, in the …

Dielectric dispersion of (NH4) 2SO4 in the near-millimetre and far-infrared range: manifestations of disorder

GV Kozlov, SP Lebedev, AA Volkov… - Journal of Physics C …, 1988 - iopscience.iop.org
Dielectric dispersion of ammonium sulphate in the 4-400 cm-1 range has been investigated
in a broad temperature region around the pseudo-proper ferroelectric transition at T c= 223 …

The phase transition in ammonium sulphate: dynamics of deuterated NH4+ ions and the heat of transition

PK Bajpai, YS Jain - Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 1987 - iopscience.iop.org
The temperature dependence of the D modes of partially deuterated NH+ ions in ammonium
sulphate has been investigated with a view to examining the nature of the changes in these …

The influence of uniaxial pressures on birefringence of (NH4) 2SO4 crystals

VY Stadnyk, MO Romanyuk, MR Tuzyak… - Ukrainian Journal of …, 2009 - elibrary.ru
We have studied the influence of the uniaxial mechanical load σm≤ 200 bar on the spectral
(300-800 nm) and temperature (300-77 K) dependences of the birefringence Δn i and the …

Phenomenological theory of the phase transition in improper ferroelectric ammonium sulphate

PK Bajpai, PN Ram, YS Jain - Journal of Physics C: Solid State …, 1987 - iopscience.iop.org
A phenomenological theory accounting for the phase transition in improper ferroelectric
ammonium sulphate has been discussed that is based on a molecular distortion-type …

Raman studies of the 223 K phase transition in (NH4) 2SO4 single crystal

SB Kwon, JJ Kim - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 1990 - iopscience.iop.org
The temperature dependence of the z (yy) x Raman spectrum was studied in (NH 4) 2 SO 2
single crystal in the temperature range 300-100 K. The temperature dependence of the NH 4 …

Magic-angle-spinning 15N NMR of ammonium sulfate

MLH Gruwel, MS McKinnon, RE Wasylishen - Chemical physics letters, 1987 - Elsevier
Magic-angle 15 N NMR measurements indicate that the nitrogen chemical shift difference for
the two inequivalent ammonium ion sites of (NH 4) 2 SO 4 is only 0.30 ppm in the room …