Raman studies of the 223 K phase transition in (NH4)2SO4single crystal

Abstract
The temperature dependence of the z(yy)x Raman spectrum was studied in (NH4)2SO2 single crystal in the temperature range 300-100 K. The temperature dependence of the NH4 translational Raman bands in the region of 200 cm-1 seems to support the hypothesis that the peculiar temperature dependence of the spontaneous polarization in (NH4)2SO4 single crystal may be ascribed to the competing polarization contributions from the NH4+(I) and NH4+(II) dipoles of opposite direction with differing reorientational relaxation temperature dependences, and also the NH4+-SO42 displacive lattice polarization, which was neglected in the point-charge model.