CdGeO3-phase transformations at high pressure and temperature and structural refinement of the perovskite polymorph |
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| Authors: | Jun-ichi Susaki |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Roppongi, Minato-ku, 106, Tokyo, Japan
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| Abstract: | Four polymorphs of CdGeO3 were synthesized at high temperatures (600 ～ 1200° C) and high pressures up to 12 GPa. The pyroxenoid phase synthesized under ambient pressure transforms to garnet, ilmenite and perovskite phases with increasing pressure. The phase boundary of ilmenite-perovskite had a slightly negative P-T slope in contrast to the positive P-T slopes of the pyroxenoid-garnet and garnet-ilmenite transition boundaries. CdGeO3III has the ilmenite structure with hexagonal lattice parameters, a=5.098 Å and c =14.883 Å. The c/a ratio of 2.919 is greater than that of any other ilmenite. CdGeO3IV has a distorted perovskite structure with orthorhombic lattice parameters a = 5.209 Å, b = 5.253 Å and c = 7.434 Å. Synthesis of a CdGeO3IV single crystal was successful and structural refinement revealed that the structure is isomorphic to GdFeO3 with the space group Pbnm. The increase of density with the CdGeO3III→CdGeO3IV transformation is the largest (9.8%) for any ilmenite-perovskite transition studied so far. |
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