Soft-mode raman and infrared spectroscopy in As.2Sb.8SI crystals

Abstract
The temperature dependence of the polar and not polar optical lattice vibrations of the ferroelectric As.2Sb.8SI crystal is investigated using both polarised infrared reflective and Raman techniques. We observed for the first time all the ten B2u +B3u modes and all the 16 B1 +B2 modes predicted from group theory for the full space group symmetry D16 2n and C9 2v with four moleculars per unit cell in the paraelectric and ferroelectric phase respectively common for all known AvBviCvii compounds. Coupled soft mode behavior is observed as frequency anticrossing and level repulsion in the Raman spectra of the ferroelectric phase, but only as line shape anomalies in the infrared spectra