Scheelite to fergusonite phase transition inYLiF4at high pressures

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Grzechnik ◽  
K. Syassen ◽  
I. Loa ◽  
M. Hanfland ◽  
J. Y. Gesland
Author(s):  
Kun Li ◽  
Junjie Wang ◽  
Vladislav A. Blatov ◽  
Yutong Gong ◽  
Naoto Umezawa ◽  
...  

AbstractAlthough tin monoxide (SnO) is an interesting compound due to its p-type conductivity, a widespread application of SnO has been limited by its narrow band gap of 0.7 eV. In this work, we theoretically investigate the structural and electronic properties of several SnO phases under high pressures through employing van der Waals (vdW) functionals. Our calculations reveal that a metastable SnO (β-SnO), which possesses space group P21/c and a wide band gap of 1.9 eV, is more stable than α-SnO at pressures higher than 80 GPa. Moreover, a stable (space group P2/c) and a metastable (space group Pnma) phases of SnO appear at pressures higher than 120 GPa. Energy and topological analyses show that P2/c-SnO has a high possibility to directly transform to β-SnO at around 120 GPa. Our work also reveals that β-SnO is a necessary intermediate state between high-pressure phase Pnma-SnO and low-pressure phase α-SnO for the phase transition path Pnma-SnO →β-SnO → α-SnO. Two phase transition analyses indicate that there is a high possibility to synthesize β-SnO under high-pressure conditions and have it remain stable under normal pressure. Finally, our study reveals that the conductive property of β-SnO can be engineered in a low-pressure range (0–9 GPa) through a semiconductor-to-metal transition, while maintaining transparency in the visible light range.


1996 ◽  
Vol 196 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
L. Bobrowicz ◽  
A. Katrusiak ◽  
W. Nawrocik ◽  
J. Wasicki ◽  
I. Natkaniec

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 374-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahya Al-Khatatbeh ◽  
Khaldoun Tarawneh ◽  
Hussein Al-Taani ◽  
Kanani K. M. Lee

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (46) ◽  
pp. 29472-29479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurong Zhang ◽  
Ermiao Sun ◽  
Xiaolei Feng ◽  
Hanyu Liu ◽  
Simon A. T. Redfern ◽  
...  

Five energetically stable phases of P1̄′, P63/mmc, I41/amd, I4/mmm and I4/mmm′ were predicted in the ReX2 family of compounds at high pressures. The coordination environment of a Re atom changes from a ReX6 octahedron or a trigonal prism to a ReX8 cuboid coordination with increasing pressure. The high-pressure metallic phases of ReX2 exhibit superconductivity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 1650-1655
Author(s):  
Wei Wei ◽  
Xinyang Li ◽  
Ningyu Sun ◽  
Sergey N. Tkachev ◽  
Zhu Mao

Abstract In this study, we have determined the combined effect of pressure and temperature on the compressional-wave velocity (VP) of Ne up to 53 GPa and 1100 K using Brillouin scattering in externally heated diamond-anvil cells. The phase transition from the supercritical fluid to solid phase was observed to cause a 10.5–11% jump in VP, and the magnitude in the VP contrast across the phase transition increases with temperature. In addition, we have observed an abnormal reduced increase rate of VP with pressure in the supercritical Ne fluid at both 800 and 1100 K before the transition to the solid phase. VP of the solid Ne exhibits a nonlinear increase with pressure at all the investigated temperatures. The elevating temperature was noted to cause an apparent reduction in VP, yet the reduction in VP caused by increasing temperature dramatically decreases at higher pressures. At 20 GPa, increasing temperature by 100 K can lower the VP of Ne by 2.4%. Yet elevating temperature by 100 K can only reduce the VP by 0.4% at 50 GPa. We further compare VP of Ne to that of other rare gases, including Ar, Kr, and Xe. At 300 K, VP of Ne shows a stronger dependence on pressure than both Kr and Xe. Moreover, increasing temperature can produce a greater reduction in VP of Ne than that of Ar below 50 GPa. Our measured VP of Ne is also useful for understanding the velocity structure of giant planets, such as Jupiter.


2014 ◽  
Vol 118 (40) ◽  
pp. 23189-23201 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. J. Pereira ◽  
J. A. Sans ◽  
R. Vilaplana ◽  
O. Gomis ◽  
F. J. Manjón ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (28n30) ◽  
pp. 3952-3955 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKAO SEKIYA ◽  
SHINSUKE OHTA ◽  
SUSUMU KURITA

Optical absorption, luminescence and Raman spectra were measured for anatase TiO 2 under high pressures. The pressure dependence of Raman frequencies is determined. The absorption edge of anatase shifts to higher energy side with increasing pressure and the edge jumps abruptly to lower energy side on the phase transition. A broad luminescence band of anatase shifts also to higher energy side with increasing pressure. These experimental results reveal that the pressure-induced phase transition from anatase to high-pressure phase arises in the range of 4.0-4.6 GPa.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 612-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
DINESH C. GUPTA ◽  
IDRIS HAMID

ab-initio calculations using fully relativistic pseudo-potential have been performed to investigate the high pressure phase transition, elastic and electronic properties of lead-chalcogenides including the less known lead polonium. The calculated ground state parameters, for the rock-salt structure show good agreement with the experimental data. The enthalpy calculations show that these materials undergo a first-order phase transition from rock-salt to CsCl structure at 19.4, 15.5, 11.5 and 7.3 GPa for PbS, PbSe, PbTe and PbPo, respectively. Present calculations successfully predicted the location of the band gap at L-point of Brillouin zone as well as the value of the band gap in every case at ambient pressure. It is observed that unlike other lead-chalcogenides, PbPo is semi-metal at ambient pressure. The pressure variation of the energy gap indicates that these materials metalized under high pressures. For this purpose, the electronic structure of these materials has also been computed in parent as well as in high pressure phase.


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