Incommensurate crystal structures in the elements at high pressure

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 219, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 742-748

  McMahon, Malcolm ^a   Nelmes, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; High pressure; Incommensurate structures; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BISMUTH; POTASSIUM; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; STRONTIUM; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; HYPERBARISM; MODULATION; PHASE TRANSITION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 10344256150     PISSN: 00442968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.219.11.742.52436     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Young, D. A.: Phase Diagrams of the Elements. University of California Press, Berkely, CA, 1991.
2. Bridgman, P. W.: Collected Experimental Papers. Harvard University Press, 1964.
3. Shimomura, O.; Takemura, K.; Fujihisa, H.; Fujii, Y.; Ohishi, Y.; Kikegawa, T.; Amemiya, Y; Matsushita, T.: Application of an Imaging Plate to High-Pressure X-ray Study with a Diamond Anvil Cell. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 63 (1992) 967-973.
4. Nelmes, R. J.; McMahon, M. I.: High-Pressure Powder Diffraction on Synchrotron Sources. J. Synchrotron Radiat. 1 (1994) 69-73.
5. Smith, H. G.; Lander, G. H.: Neutron Scattering Investigations of α-Uranium in the Charge-density-wave State. Phys. Rev. B 30 (1984) 5407-5415.
6. Takemura, K.; Sato, K.; Fujihisa, H.; Onoda, M.: Modulated Structure of Solid Iodine During its Molecular Dissociation under High Pressure. Nature 423 (2003) 971-974.
7. Takemura, K.; Sato, K.; Fujihisa, H.; Onoda, M.: Structural phase transitions in iodine under high pressure. Z. Kristallogr. 219 (2004) 749-754.
8. Piltz, R. O.; McMahon, M. I.; Grain, J.; Hatton, P. D.; Nelmes, R. J.; Cernik, R. J.; Bushnellwye, G.: An Imaging Plate System For High-Pressure Powder Diffraction - The Data-Processing Side. Rev. Sci. Inst. 63 (1992) 700-703.
9. Hammersley, A. P.; Svensson, S. O.; Hanfland, M.; Fitch, A. N.; Hausermann, D.: Two-dimensional Detector Software: From Real Detector to Idealised Image or Two-theta Scan. High Press. Res. 14 (1996) 235-248.
10. van Smaalen, S.: An elementary introduction to superspace crystallography. Z. Kristallogr. 219 (2004) 681-691.
11. Petříček, V.; Dušek, M.: The crystallographic computing system JANA2000. Institute of Physics, Praha, Czech Republic (2000).
12. Petříček, V.; Dušek, M.: Methods of structural analysis and the computer program Jana 2000. Z. Kristallogr. 219 (2004) 692-700.
13. Nelmes, R. J.; Allan, D. R.; McMahon, M. I.; Belmonte, S. A.: Self-hosting Incommensurate Structure of Barium-IV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (1999) 4081-4084.
14. Here, and elsewhere in this manuscript, the refined structural parameters and their uncertainties are as given by the Rietveld refinement software. In some cases, this may underestimate the true uncertainties.
15. McMahon, M. I.; Bovornratanaraks, T.; Allan, D. R.; Belmonte, S. A.; Nelmes, R. J.: Observation of the Incommensurate Barium-IV Structure in Strontium Phase V. Phys. Rev. B61 (2000) 3135-3138.
16. Chen, J. H.; Iwasaki, H.; Kikegawa, T.: Crystal Structure of the High Pressure Phase of Bi-III and Bi-III′ by High Energy Synchrotron. High Pressure Research 15 (1996) 143-158.
17. McMahon, M. I.; Degtyareva, O.; Nelmes, R. J.: Ba-IV-Type Incommensurate Crystal Structure on Group-V Metals. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 4896-4899.
18. 2. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 74 (1942) 425-440.
19. McMahon, M. I.; Degtyareva, O.; Nelmes, R. J.; van Smaalen, S., Palatinus, L.: Incommensurate modulations of Bi-III and Sb-II. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2003) submitted.
20. Degtyareva, O.; McMahon, M. I.; Nelmes, R. J.: Pressure Induced Incommensurate to Incommensurate Phase Transition in Antimony. Phys. Rev. B (2004) in press.
21. Schwarz, U.; Grzechnik, A.; Syassen, K.; Loa, I.; Hanfland, M.: Rubidium-IV: A High Pressure Phase with Complex Crystal Structure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (1999) 4085-4088.
22. McMahon, M. I.; Rekhi, S.; Nelmes, R. J.: Pressure Dependent Incommensuration in Rb-IV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 055501.
23. McMahon, M. I.; Nelmes, R. J.: Chain "Melting" in the Composite Rb-IV Structure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 055501.
24. 6. Phys. Rev. Lett. 40 (1978) 1507-1510.
25. Winzenick, M.; Vijayakumar, V.; Holzapfel, W. B.: High-pressure X-Ray Diffraction on Potassium and Rubidium up to 50 GPa. Phys. Rev. B50 (1994) 12381-12385.
26. Syassen, K.: Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" Course CXLVII, "High Pressure Phenomena". (Eds. R. J. Hemley; G. L. Chiarotti; M. Bernasconi; L. Ulivi). IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002, p. 262.
27. Hejny, C.; McMahon, M. I.: Large Structural Modulations in Incommensurate Te-II1 and Se-IV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 215502.
28. Akahama, Y.; Kobayashi, M.; Kawamura, H.: X-Ray-Diffraction Study on Pressure-Induced Successive Phase-Transition in Selenium. Solid State Communic. 83 (1992) 269-272.
29. McMahon, M. I.; Hejny, C.; Loveday J. S.; Lundegaard, L.; Hanfland, M.: Confirmation of the Incommensurate Nature of Se-IV to at least 70 GPa. Phys. Rev. B70 (2004) 054101.
30. Nelmes, R. J.; McMahon, M. I.; Loveday, J. S.; Rekhi, S.: Structure of Rb-III: Novel Modulated Stacking Structures in Alkali Metals. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 155503.
31. McMahon, M. I.; Nelmes, R. J.; Rekhi, S.: Complex Crystal Structure of Cesium-III. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 255502.
32. Degtyareva, O.; McMahon, M. I.; Allan, D. R.; Nelmes, R. J.: Structural Complexity in Gallium Under High Pressure: Relation to Alkali Elements. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2004) in press.
33. Elcoro, L.; Perez-Mato, J. M.: Superspace Description of the High-Pressure Complex Phases of Rb-III and Cs-III, Proceedings of "Aperiodic 2003", to be published.
34. Akahama, Y.; Kobayashi, M.; Kawamura, H.: Pressure-induced Structural Phase Transition in Sulfur at 83 GPa, Phys. Rev. B48 (1993) 6862-6864.
35. Häussermann, U.; Söderburg, K.; Norrestram, R.: Comparative Study of the High-Pressure Behaviour of As, Sb and Bi. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124 (2002) 15359-15367.
36. Reed, S. K.; Ackland, G. J.: Theoretical and Computational Study of High-Pressure Structures in Barium. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 5580-5583.
37. Brown, I. D.; Datars, W.; Gillespie, R. J.: Extended Linear Chain Compounds. Edited by J. S. Miller (Plenum, New York, 1983), Vol. 3, p. 1.
38. Degtyareva, O.: X-ray Diffraction Studies of Complex High-pressure Phases of Bi, Sb, As, and Ga. PhD Thesis, The University of Edinburgh, 2003.