Abstract
Dielectric measurements have been carried out on the single crystals of DyVO4, TbVO4, and TmVO4 through the Jahn-Teller transition temperatures. An anomalous increase of the dielectric susceptibility with temperature along the c axis was observed for DyVO4, but not for TbVO4 and TmVO4. This behavior is explained as due to the antiferroelectricity driven by the soft B1g strain mode through the "sublattice piezoelectricity."

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