Analytic prediction of the exact thermodynamics of a first-order structural phase transition: A practical second-order self-consistent phonon theory

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (14) ◽  
pp. 8733-8747 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Morris ◽  
R. J. Gooding
RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (73) ◽  
pp. 69546-69550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Khan ◽  
Muhammad Adnan Asghar ◽  
Zhihua Sun ◽  
Chengmin Ji ◽  
Lina Li ◽  
...  

We report an organic–ionic material that undergoes a first-order structural phase transition, induced by order–disorder of oxygen atoms in picrate anion. This strategy offers a potential pathway to explore new switchable dielectric materials.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 3167-3170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Salgado-Beceiro ◽  
Ariel Nonato ◽  
Rosivaldo Xavier Silva ◽  
Alberto García-Fernández ◽  
Manuel Sánchez-Andújar ◽  
...  

We report giant reversible barocaloric effects in [(CH3)4N]Mn[N3]3 hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite, near its first-order cubic-monoclinic structural phase transition at T0 ∼ 305 K.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1141 ◽  
pp. 39-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok K. Ahirwar ◽  
Mahendra Aynyas ◽  
Yeshvir Singh Panwar ◽  
Sankar P. Sanyal

A theoretical study of first order pressure induced structural phase transition, mechanical and thermal properties of YBi and ScBi compounds have been investigated using the modified inter-ionic potential theory (MIPT), which parametrically includes the effect of coulomb screening. The calculated results of phase transition pressure of ScBi and YBi are agree well with the available theoretical data. We have also reported the second order elastic constants and Debye temperature of these compounds. Our calculated values of second order elastic constant C11, C12 and C44 are 128.4, 29.5, 30.2 GPa and 123.1, 29.7, 30.3 GPa for ScBi and YBi compounds respectively. These results are in good agreement with available theoretical data. We have also estimated Debye temperatures (θD) are 80K, 86K, for ScBi and YBi compounds respectively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (10) ◽  
pp. 4141-4146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanli Lan ◽  
Hongyan Chen ◽  
Hanxuan Lin ◽  
Yu Bai ◽  
Yang Yu ◽  
...  

Characterization of the onset of a phase transition is often challenging due to the fluctuations of the correlation length scales of the order parameters. This is especially true for second-order structural-phase transition due to minute changes involved in the relevant lattice constants. A classic example is the cubic-to-tetragonal second-order phase transition in SrTiO3(STO), which is so subtle that it is still unresolved. Here, we demonstrate an approach to resolve this issue by epitaxially grown rhombohedral La0.7Sr0.3MnO3(LSMO) thin films on the cubic STO (100) substrate. The shear strain induced nanotwinning waves in the LSMO film are extremely sensitive to the cubic-to-tetragonal structural-phase transitions of the STO substrate. Upon cooling from room temperature, the development of the nanotwinning waves is spatially inhomogeneous. Untwinned, atomically flat domains, ranging in size from 100 to 300 nm, start to appear randomly in the twinned phase between 265 and 175 K. At ∼139 K, the untwinned, atomically flat domains start to grow rapidly into micrometer scale and finally become dominant at ∼108 K. These results indicate that the low-temperature tetragonal precursor phase of STO has already nucleated at 265 K, significantly higher than the critical temperature of STO (∼105 K). Our work paves a pathway to visualize the onset stages of structural-phase transitions that are too subtle to be observed using direct-imaging methods.


1983 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 819
Author(s):  
Tao Rui-bao ◽  
Yu En-xi ◽  
Lu Jian-hua ◽  
Chen Zhe

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