Understanding the unusual response to high pressure in KBe2BO3F2
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2017-06-22
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Springer Nature
Abstract
Strong anisotropic compression with pressure on the remarkable non-linear optical material KBe2BO3F2 has been observed with the linear compression coefficient along the c axis found to be about 40 times larger than that along the a axis. An unusual non-monotonic pressure response was observed for the a lattice parameter. The derived bulk modulus of 31 ± 1 GPa indicates that KBe2BO3F2 is a very soft oxide material yet with stable structure up to 45 GPa. A combination of high-pressure synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction, high-pressure Raman spectroscopy, and Density Functional Theory calculations points to the mechanism for the unusual pressure response being due to the competition between the K-F bond length and K-F-K bond angle and the coupling between the stretching and twisting vibration modes. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Nonlinear optics, Solids, Liquids, Anisotropy, Pressure range mega pa 10-100, X-ray diffraction, Lattice parameters, Raman spectroscopy, Monocrystals
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Yu, D. H., Avdeev, M., Sun, D. H., Huston, L. Q., Shiell, T. B., Sun, Q. B., Lu, T., Gu, Q., Liu, H., Bradby, J. E., Yie, N., Liu, Y., Wang J. Y., & McIntyre, G. J. (2017). Understanding the unusual response to high pressure in KBe2BO3F2. Scientific Reports, 7, 4027. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04323-2