<title>Behavior of relaxor single crystals</title>

Abstract

The constitutive behavior of relaxor rhombohedral single crystal is discussed in terms of the constitutive behavior of crystal variants. The domain engineered cut gives rise to a stable domain state. Resulting crystal behavior is described. The cut and poled single crystal should display the volume average behavior of single domain crystal variants, but comparison of a crystal variant model with measured properties leads to the identification of inconsistencies. Several possible reasons for these inconsistencies are discussed.