Ferroelectric Bi4Ti3O12 ceramics have been prepared by the method of reactive sintering. The ceramics exhibit good ferroelectric properties with a remanent polarization Pr=5.5×10−2C/m2 and a coercive field Ec=3MV/m. High resolution x-ray photoelectron spectra of the atomic constituents of Bi4Ti3O12 were recorded. The obtained results indicate that oxygen vacancies are preferentially sited in the vicinity of Bi ions, in the Bi2O2 layers.

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