Femtosecond Resolution of Soft Mode Dynamics in Structural Phase Transitions

Science ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 258 (5083) ◽  
pp. 770-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Dougherty ◽  
G. P. Wiederrecht ◽  
K. A. Nelson ◽  
M. H. Garrett ◽  
H. P. Jensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Soft Mode ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions

Phonons and magnons under the sequential structural phase transitions in La2NiO4

1991 ◽  
Vol 185-189 ◽  
pp. 895-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sugai ◽  
S. Hosoya ◽  
T. Kajitani ◽  
T. Fukuda ◽  
S. Onodera
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions

Structural phase transitions of LaScO3 from first principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 102048
Author(s):  
Craig A.J. Fisher ◽  
Ayako Taguchi ◽  
Takafumi Ogawa ◽  
Akihide Kuwabara
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions

scholarly journals The origin of the lattice thermal conductivity enhancement at the ferroelectric phase transition in GeTe

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Đorđe Dangić ◽  
Olle Hellman ◽  
Stephen Fahy ◽  
Ivana Savić
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Thermoelectric Materials ◽  
Ferroelectric Phase Transition ◽  
Lattice Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Ferroelectric Phase ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
High Symmetry ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions

AbstractThe proximity to structural phase transitions in IV-VI thermoelectric materials is one of the main reasons for their large phonon anharmonicity and intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity κ. However, the κ of GeTe increases at the ferroelectric phase transition near 700 K. Using first-principles calculations with the temperature dependent effective potential method, we show that this rise in κ is the consequence of negative thermal expansion in the rhombohedral phase and increase in the phonon lifetimes in the high-symmetry phase. Strong anharmonicity near the phase transition induces non-Lorentzian shapes of the phonon power spectra. To account for these effects, we implement a method of calculating κ based on the Green-Kubo approach and find that the Boltzmann transport equation underestimates κ near the phase transition. Our findings elucidate the influence of structural phase transitions on κ and provide guidance for design of better thermoelectric materials.

Temperature-induced structural phase transitions in RERhSn (RE = Y, Gd-Tm, Lu)

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Engelbert ◽  
Rolf-Dieter Hoffmann ◽  
Jutta Kösters ◽  
Steffen Klenner ◽  
Rainer Pöttgen
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Structural Phase ◽  
Structural Phase Transitions ◽  
Line Broadening ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
X Ray

Abstract The structures of the equiatomic stannides RERhSn with the smaller rare earth elements Y, Gd-Tm and Lu were reinvestigated on the basis of temperature-dependent single crystal X-ray diffraction data. GdRhSn crystallizes with the aristotype ZrNiAl at 293 and 90 K. For RE = Y, Tb, Ho and Er the HP-CeRuSn type (approximant with space group R3m) is already formed at room temperature, while DyRhSn adopts the HP-CeRuSn type below 280 K. TmRhSn and LuRhSn show incommensurate modulated variants with superspace groups P31m(1/3; 1/3; γ) 000 (No. 157.1.23.1) (γ = 3/8 for TmRhSn and γ = 2/5 for LuRhSn). The driving force for superstructure formation (modulation) is a strengthening of Rh–Sn bonding. The modulation is expressed in a 119Sn Mössbauer spectrum of DyRhSn at 78 K through line broadening.

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