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Strain Driven Two-Dimensional Phase Transition in PbSnF4 Superionic Conductor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

Georges Denes ,
M.C. Madamba  and
J.M. Parris
Georges Denes
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry and Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Laboratories for Inorganic Materials, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada
M.C. Madamba
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry and Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Laboratories for Inorganic Materials, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada
J.M. Parris
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry and Mössbauer Spectroscopy, Laboratories for Inorganic Materials, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada
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Abstract

When a minor amount of HF is added to the SnF2 reacted with lead nitrate in aqueous solutions to prepare PbSnF4, a phase transition from tetragonal α-PbSnF4 to orthorhombíc o-PbSnF4 takes place. The transition is essentially bidimensional and takes place in the (a,b) plane of the unit-cell. The compactness of the structure increases at the transition. No essential structural change occurs: the transition is most likely displacive and it is driven by bidimensional nonuniform strain acting along the aand baxes of the unit-cell. This transition is similar to ferroic transitions (in this case, paraelastic → ferroelastic). No detectable change of chemical composition occurs at the transition, and the reason why the presence of HF in the reaction mixture causes the transition remains unknown.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 369: Symposium U – Solid State Ionics IV , 1994 , 463
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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