Local Vibrations and Negative Thermal Expansion in
- 28 January 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 112 (4), 045505
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.112.045505
Abstract
We present an x-ray pair distribution function (XPDF) analysis and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) data for (10–500 K) with a focus on the stiffness of the Zr-O-W linkage. The XPDF is highly sensitive to W-Zr and W-W correlations, but much less so to O-O or W-O correlations. The Zr-W peak in the XPDF data has a weak temperature dependence and, hence, this linkage is relatively stiff and does not permit bending of the Zr-O-W link. We propose that the low energy vibrational modes that lead to negative thermal expansion involve correlated rotations of octahedra that produce large translations of the tetrahedra, rather than a transverse motion of O atoms that imply a flexible Zr-O-W linkage. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.045505 © 2014 Published by the American Physical Society
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