High-pressure phase transformations, pressure-induced amorphization, and polyamorphic transition of the clathrate
- 4 May 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 79 (18), 184101
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.79.184101
Abstract
The type-I clathrate with partly empty cage sites has been studied up to 36 GPa using Raman spectroscopy, synchrotron x-ray diffraction in diamond-anvil cells, and ab initio total-energy and lattice-dynamics calculations. A first phase transition is observed at and a “volume collapse” transition within the clathrate structure is then observed at . Pressure-induced amorphization into a high-density amorphous (HDA) state occurs above . The HDA form transforms into a low-density amorphous polymorph during decompression. During the compression study using angle dispersive synchrotron x-ray diffraction techniques we measured bulk modulus parameters for rocksalt-structured TaO, included adventitiously in the clathrate sample [ and ].
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