BARC/PUB/2013/0921

 
 

Pressure induced phase transition in NaNbO3

 
     
 
Author(s)

Mishra, S. K.; Mittal, R.; Chaplot, S. L.; Hansen, T.
(SSPD)

Source

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2013. Vol. 1512 (1): pp. 50-51

ABSTRACT

We report high pressure powder neutron diffraction study in technologically important material sodium niobate using high-flux D20 neutron diffractometer at Institut Laue- Langevin, France. The measurements were carried out using Paris-Edinburgh cell upto 11 GPa in the pressure intervals of 1-2 GPa at 300 K. Rietveld refinement of the powder diffraction data revealed that diffraction patterns could be indexed using the orthorhombic structure (space group Pbcm) up to 6 GPa. Careful inspection of pressure dependence of diffraction data showed appearance and disappearance of certain superlattice reflections around 7 GPa. The new superlattice reflections that appear at 7 GPa, could be indexed by using an orthorhombic phase with space group Pbnm. We also observed that the response of the structural parameters with pressure is strongly anisotropic.

 
 
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