HoB4 at high pressure and low temperature: an experimental and theoretical study
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2011
Single crystals of HoB4 have been grown and used for synchrotron X-ray diffraction studies at pressures up to 23GPa and temperatures down to 100K. The experimental bulk modulus 195 ± 6GPa is in good agreement with 188.4 and 198.2GPa values calculated in the LSDA and LSDA+U approximations, indicating that mainly the boron sublattice determines the bulk modulus. The experimental c/a ratio decreases slightly with pressure, but the effect is small. An orthorhombic distortion begins at Tc ≈ 295K, i.e. at a temperature much higher than the Neel temperature TN1=7.1K. The behavior is interpreted in terms of built-in strains and crystal mosaicity.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | High Pressure Research |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Journal number | 1 |
| Pages | 3-6 |
| ISSN | 0895-7959 |
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| State | Published |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 1 |
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Keywords
- Equation of state, Density functional theory, Crystal structure, X-ray diffraction
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