Dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Sr4CaSmTi3Nb7O30 with tetragonal tungsten bronze 5 structure# Gong Gaoshang, Fang Yujiao, Huang Shuai, Yin Chongyang, Yuan Songliu, Wang Liguang** (School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China) 10 Abstract: Sr4CaSmTi3Nb7O30 ceramics were synthesized and indexed as tetragonal tungsten bronze structure. The dielectric behavior and ferroelectric nature were investigated. Three dielectric anomalies were observed. The phase transition is a displacive phase transition with some diffusive characteristic, which indicates positional variations within the materials in the microscopic scale. The weak distortion disappears on cooling process for differential scanning calorimetry 15 20 25 30 35 measurement and the large depression of Curie-Weiss temperature T0 indicate the difficulty in forming of macroferroelectric domain. The ferroelectric nature in these filled tungsten bronze niobates originates from the off-center displacement of B-site cations, but they primarily dominated by A site cations occupation. Both the radius and the valence of A1 site cations play important roles on ferroelectric properties of the filled tungsten pounds. Existence of spontaneous polarization with Pr = and Ec = confirms the room temperature ferroelectric