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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B Année : 2017

Experimental and first-principles calculation study of the pressure-induced transitions to a metastable phase in GaPO4 and in the solid solution AlPO4-GaPO4

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alpha-Quartz-type gallium phosphate and representative compositions in the AlPO4-GaPO4 solid solution were studied by x-ray powder diffraction and absorption spectroscopy, Raman scattering, and by first-principles calculations up to pressures of close to 30 GPa. A phase transition to a metastable orthorhombic high-pressure phase along with some of the stable orthorhombic Cmcm CrVO4-type material is found to occur beginning at 9 GPa at 320 degrees C in GaPO4. In the case of the AlPO4-GaPO4 solid solution at room temperature, only the metastable orthorhombic phase was obtained above 10 GPa. The possible crystal structures of the high-pressure forms of GaPO4 were predicted from first-principles calculations and the evolutionary algorithm USPEX. A predicted orthorhombic structure with a Pmn2(1) space group with the gallium in sixfold and phosphorus in fourfold coordination was found to be in the best agreement with the combined experimental data from x-ray diffraction and absorption and Raman spectroscopy. This method is found to very powerful to better understand competition between different phase transition pathways at high pressure.
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hal-01677334 , version 1 (09-07-2021)

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E. Angot, B. Huang, Claire Levelut, Rozenn Le Parc, Patrick Hermet, et al.. Experimental and first-principles calculation study of the pressure-induced transitions to a metastable phase in GaPO4 and in the solid solution AlPO4-GaPO4. Physical Review B, 2017, 1 (3), pp.033607. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.033607⟩. ⟨hal-01677334⟩
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