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Ferroelastic phase transition in the sanmartinite (ZnWO4)-cuproscheelite (CuWO4) solid solution

P F Schofield and S A T Redfern

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Tungstates in the composition range ZnWO4-CuWO4 (sanmartinite-cuproscheelite) have been synthesized. Complete solid solutions between the end members are found for samples annealed at 600 degrees C. The lattice parameters across the solid solution vary continuously and reveal a structural phase transition between the P2/c sanmartinite structure and P1 cuproscheelite structure at around Zn0.78Cu0.22WO4. The spontaneous strain arising in the triclinic phase is large, amounting to some 6.5% in the cuproscheelite end member, and has been used as a measure of the order parameter for the transition. The structural phase transition is potentially ferroelastic and appears continuous as a function of composition at room temperature and pressure. The transition is successfully modelled in terms of a second-order Landau-type phenomenological potential.


PACS

77.80.Bh Phase transitions and Curie point

64.70.K- Solid–solid transitions

71.70.Ej Spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman and Stark splitting, Jahn-Teller effect

61.66.Fn Inorganic compounds

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 2 (13 January 1992)



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