The direct optical bandgap in ferroelectric KNbO3-Bi(Yb,Me)O3 (Me = Fe or Mn) ceramics fabricated by the solid state reaction method varies from 3.2 eV for KNbO3 down to 2.2 eV for 0.95KNbO3-0.05BiYbO3, as revealed by optical spectroscopic ellipsometry. This narrowing of bandgap is accompanied by an apparent increase of the room-temperature relative permittivity from 320 for KNbO3 to 900 for 0.95KNbO3-0.05BiYbO3. All compositions studied exhibit dielectric anomalies associated with structural phase transitions, and their ferroelectric nature is corroborated by the presence of a sharp mixed mode (at ∼190 cm−1) and by a Fano-type resonant dip in their Raman spectra.
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