Troubleshooting XRD Image Analysis on PZT Thin Film

[fahad abdullah]

I have the XRD image of a PZT thin film. While trying to analyze it with JADE software I can not find the proper space group.So it is not giving me the answer I am looking for. I assumed the crystal system to be cubic.

 

[UltrafastPED]

Piezoelectric materials are never cubic - they cannot be centro-symmetric.

See http://www.americanpiezo.com/piezo-theory/pzt.html
and http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-eps/irc/hydrothermal-phd-thesis/CHAPTER2.pdf

 

[phyzguy]

I have the XRD image of a PZT thin film. While trying to analyze it with JADE software I can not find the proper space group.So it is not giving me the answer I am looking for. I assumed the crystal system to be cubic.

PZT has a perovskite crystal structure.