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Abstract: The present work reports an experimental investigation on the influence of glycine (NH2CH2COOH) substitution in the polar properties and the critical dynamics of the molecular ferroelectric betaine arsenate, (CH3)3NCH2COO·H3AsO4. The dielectric dispersion (20Hz<ν<3MHz) and the thermally induced displacement currents are investigated in detail over the extended Curie region of the system (130K

The mixed system of betaine arsenate and betaine phosphate (BP)x(BA)1-x displays, at low temperatures, dielectric anomalies that have been tentatively associated to re-entrant glass phases. In this work, we report results obtained for the composition x = 0.52. The temperature dependence of the complex dielectric constant, polarization hysteresis loops and pyroelectric currents reported prove that an effective ergodicity breaking occurs in the antiferroelectric phase and show that this phase is destabilized at low temperatures. There is also evidence for a high internal bias field, in the whole temperature range studied. Infrared and Raman spectroscopy indicate that the various dielectric anomalies observed reflect structural transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]