research papers
A simple Monte Carlo model has been developed that convincingly reproduces the diffuse streaking that is observed on selected-area electron diffraction patterns of the rhombohedral phase of PZT. These results provide substantial evidence that the Pb as well as the Ti/Zr ions are displaced away from the centres of their coordination polydedra along cubic <111>c directions and that these displacements are correlated along chains that run along <111>c also.