The first-order Raman spectroscopy of diamond exhibits splitting and redshift after the burst of high-pressure(160–200 GPa) and high-temperature(~2000 K). The observed longitudinal optical(LO) and the transverse opt...The first-order Raman spectroscopy of diamond exhibits splitting and redshift after the burst of high-pressure(160–200 GPa) and high-temperature(~2000 K). The observed longitudinal optical(LO) and the transverse optical(TO) splitting of Raman phonon is related to the tensile-strain induced activation of the forbidden or silent Raman modes that arise in the proximity of the Brillouin zone center.展开更多
Tantalum nitride (TAN) compact with a Vickers hardness of 26 GPa is prepared by a high-pressure and high- temperature (HPHT) method. The crystal structure and atom occupations of WC-type TaN have been investigated...Tantalum nitride (TAN) compact with a Vickers hardness of 26 GPa is prepared by a high-pressure and high- temperature (HPHT) method. The crystal structure and atom occupations of WC-type TaN have been investigated by neutron powder diffraction, and the compressibility of WC-type TaN has been investigated by using in-situ high-pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction. The third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state fitted to the x-ray diffraction pressure- volume (P-V) sets of data, collected up to 41 GPa, yields ambient pressure isothermal bulk moduli of B0 = 369(2) GPa with pressure derivatives of B~ = 4 for the WC-type TaN. The bulk modulus of WC-type TaN is not in good agreement with the previous result (Bo = 351 GPa), which is close to the recent theoretical calculation result (Bo = 378 GPa). An analysis of the experiment results shows that crystal structure of WC-type TaN can be viewed as alternate stacking of Ta and N layers along the c direction, and the covalent Ta-N bonds between Ta and N layers along the c axis in the crystal structure play an important role in the incompressibility and hardness of WC-type TaN.展开更多
We observed an isostructural phase transition in the solid nitrogen λ-N_(2) at approximately 50 GPa accompanied by anomalies in lattice parameters,atomic volume and Raman vibron modes.The anomalies are ascribed to a ...We observed an isostructural phase transition in the solid nitrogen λ-N_(2) at approximately 50 GPa accompanied by anomalies in lattice parameters,atomic volume and Raman vibron modes.The anomalies are ascribed to a slight reorientation of the nitrogen molecules,which does not seem to affect the monoclinic symmetry(space group P2_(1)/c).Our ab initio calculations further confirm the phenomena,and suggest an optimized structure for the λ-N_(2) phase.In addition,a new high-pressure amorphous phase of η′-N_(2) was also discovered by a detailed investigation of the pressure-temperature phase diagram of nitrogen with the aim of probing the phase stability of λ-N_(2).Our result may provide helpful information about the crystallographic nature of dissociation transitions in diatomic molecular crystals(H_(2),O_(2),N_(2),etc).展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11774247)
文摘The first-order Raman spectroscopy of diamond exhibits splitting and redshift after the burst of high-pressure(160–200 GPa) and high-temperature(~2000 K). The observed longitudinal optical(LO) and the transverse optical(TO) splitting of Raman phonon is related to the tensile-strain induced activation of the forbidden or silent Raman modes that arise in the proximity of the Brillouin zone center.
基金Project supported by the Research Foundation of Key Laboratory of Neutron Physics(Grant No.2015BB03)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11774247)+2 种基金the Science Foundation for Excellent Youth Scholars of Sichuan University(Grant No.2015SCU04A04)the Joint Usage/Research Center PRIUS(Ehime University,Japan)Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2017-BEPC-PT-000568)
文摘Tantalum nitride (TAN) compact with a Vickers hardness of 26 GPa is prepared by a high-pressure and high- temperature (HPHT) method. The crystal structure and atom occupations of WC-type TaN have been investigated by neutron powder diffraction, and the compressibility of WC-type TaN has been investigated by using in-situ high-pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction. The third-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state fitted to the x-ray diffraction pressure- volume (P-V) sets of data, collected up to 41 GPa, yields ambient pressure isothermal bulk moduli of B0 = 369(2) GPa with pressure derivatives of B~ = 4 for the WC-type TaN. The bulk modulus of WC-type TaN is not in good agreement with the previous result (Bo = 351 GPa), which is close to the recent theoretical calculation result (Bo = 378 GPa). An analysis of the experiment results shows that crystal structure of WC-type TaN can be viewed as alternate stacking of Ta and N layers along the c direction, and the covalent Ta-N bonds between Ta and N layers along the c axis in the crystal structure play an important role in the incompressibility and hardness of WC-type TaN.
基金supported by the Sichuan University Innovation Research Program of China(Grant No.2020SCUNL107)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U2030107,11774247,and 11974154)+1 种基金Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.2019-BEPC-PT003237 and 2020-SSRF-PT-012109)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Grant Nos.2019GGX103023 and Z2018S008)。
文摘We observed an isostructural phase transition in the solid nitrogen λ-N_(2) at approximately 50 GPa accompanied by anomalies in lattice parameters,atomic volume and Raman vibron modes.The anomalies are ascribed to a slight reorientation of the nitrogen molecules,which does not seem to affect the monoclinic symmetry(space group P2_(1)/c).Our ab initio calculations further confirm the phenomena,and suggest an optimized structure for the λ-N_(2) phase.In addition,a new high-pressure amorphous phase of η′-N_(2) was also discovered by a detailed investigation of the pressure-temperature phase diagram of nitrogen with the aim of probing the phase stability of λ-N_(2).Our result may provide helpful information about the crystallographic nature of dissociation transitions in diatomic molecular crystals(H_(2),O_(2),N_(2),etc).