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The crystal structure of nickel arsenide

J G Thompson, A D Rae, R L Withers, T R Welberry and A C Willis

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The crystal structure has been redetermined using X-ray diffraction data collected from a triply twinned crystal, a=10.8568(8), b=6.2682(5), c=5.0340(7)AA, Cmc21 grown using I2 as the vapour transport agent. The weak orthorhombic superlattice originally observed by convergent-beam electron diffraction, corresponding to the freezing in of a q=1/3(1120) Sigma 6 sub-cell phonon mode, is confirmed, and magnitudes of the atomic displacements from their ideal positions refined. Closer inspection of the data revealed the presence of a q=0, Sigma 6u symmetry, frozen-in-phonon mode, which depending on its sign when added to the q=1/3(1120) mode, results in two homometric solutions.


PACS

61.66.Fn Inorganic compounds

61.05.cp X-ray diffraction

Subjects

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 22 (10 August 1988)



  1. The crystal structure of nickel arsenide

    J G Thompson et al 1988 J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 21 4007

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