Atomic disorder in Gd2Zr2O7 pyrochlore
Gd2Zr2O7 pyrochlore with different degrees of cation disorder were synthesized by isothermal annealing at various temperatures (1100–1550 °C), and the related changes in the structure were investigated by ambient and high pressure x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. Unit cell parameters increase a...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Applied physics letters 2015-05, Vol.106 (19) |
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Zusammenfassung: | Gd2Zr2O7 pyrochlore with different degrees of cation disorder were synthesized by isothermal annealing at various temperatures (1100–1550 °C), and the related changes in the structure were investigated by ambient and high pressure x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. Unit cell parameters increase almost linearly with increasing treatment temperature. The degree of cation order in pyrochlore also increases with the increase of temperature, but saturates at ∼60%. The compressibility of the pyrochlore structures decreases when the degree of cation order increases. High pressure XRD measurements also indicate that the phase stability of Gd2Zr2O7 is not very sensitive to the degree of atomic disorder in the pyrochlore structure. |
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ISSN: | 0003-6951 1077-3118 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.4921268 |