Abstract

Ferroelectric copper(II)-modified polycrystalline Pb[Zr0.54Ti0.46]O-3 ceramics with a dopant concentration of 0.25 mol % were investigated by means of electron paramagnetic resonance and hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy. Special emphasis was put on the resolution of the Pb-207 hyperfine couplings, which were resolved in the first and second coordination sphere. The results prove that copper is incorporated at the octahedrally coordinated [Zr,Ti] site, acting as an acceptor and disfavor a directly coordinated oxygen vacancy to the copper center for charge compensation.