Title

High-Pressure X-Ray Diffraction Studies Of The Nanostructured Transparent Vitroceramic Medium K2O-Sio2-Ga2O3

Abstract

Synchrotron-radiation-based, energy-dispersive x-ray-diffraction studies have been performed on a composite containing nanometer-size aggregates embedded in an amorphous matrix, in the pressure range from ambient up to 15 GPa. The optically transparent material containing β-Ga2O3 nanocrystals was developed by the controlled crystallization of a silicon oxide-based amorphous precursor. Transmission electron microscopy and conventional x-ray-diffraction techniques allowed estimating the mean size of a single-crystalline phase to be 14.8±1.9 nm, distributed homogeneously in an amorphous medium. The pressure-driven evolution of x-ray-diffraction patterns indicated a progressive densification of the nanocrystalline phase. A structural modification corresponding to a pressure-induced coordination change of the gallium atoms was evidenced by the appearance of new diffraction peaks. The overall changes of x-ray-diffraction patterns indicated a β-Ga2O3 to α-Ga2O3 phase transformation. The low- to high-density phase transition was initiated at around 6 GPa and not completed in the pressure range investigated. A Birch-Murnaghan fit of the unit-cell volume change as a function of pressure yielded a zero-pressure bulk modulus, K0, for the nanocrystalline phase of 191±4.9 GPa and its pressure derivative, K0′=8.3±0.9. © 2003 The American Physical Society.

Publication Date

7-15-2003

Publication Title

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volume

68

Issue

11

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.68.035209

Socpus ID

85039002883 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85039002883

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