A(2)TiO(5) (A = Dy, Gd, Er, Yb) at High Pressure

作者：Park Sulgiye^*; Rittman Dylan R; Tracy Cameron L; Chapman Karena W; Zhang Fuxiang; Park Changyong; Tkachev Sergey N; O'Quinn Eric; Shamblin Jacob; Lang Maik; Mao Wendy L; Ewing Rodney C

来源：Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, 57(4): 2269-2277.

DOI：10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03106

The structural evolution of lanthanide A(2)TiO(5) (A = Dy, Gd, Yb, Er) at high pressure is investigated using synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The effects of A-site cation size and of the initial structure are systematically examined by varying the composition of the isostructural lanthanide titanates and the structure of dysprosium titanate polymorphs (orthorhombic, hexagonal, and cubic), respectively. All samples undergo irreversible high-pressure phase transformations, but with different onset pressures depending on the initial structure. While each individual phase exhibits different phase transformation histories, all samples commonly experience a sluggish transformation to a defect cotunnite-like (Pnma) phase for a certain pressure range. Orthorhombic Dy2TiO5 and Gd2TiO5 form P2(1)am at pressures below 9 GPa and Pnma above 13 GPa. Pyrochlore-type Dy2TiO5 and Er2TiO5 as well as defect-fluorite-type Yb2TiO5 form Pnma at similar to 21 GPa, followed by Im(3)over-barm. Hexagonal Dy2TiO5 forms Pnma directly, although a small amount of remnants of hexagonal Dy2TiO5 is observed even at the highest pressure (similar to 55 GPa) reached, indicating kinetic limitations in the hexagonal Dy2TiO5 phase transformations at high pressure. Decompression of these materials leads to different metastable phases. Most interestingly, a high-pressure cubic X-type phase (Im(3)over-barm) is confirmed using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy oft recovered pyrochlore-type Er2TiO5. The kinetic constraints on this metastable phase yield a mixture of both the X-type phase and amorphous domains upon pressure release. This is the first observation of an X-type phase for an A(2)BO(5) composition at high pressure.

• 出版日期2018-2-19