Probing disorder in high-pressure cubic tin (IV) oxide: a combined X-ray diffraction and absorption study.
J Synchrotron Radiat
; 26(Pt 4): 1245-1252, 2019 Jul 01.
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ABSTRACT
The transparent conducting oxide, SnO2, is a promising optoelectronic material with predicted tailorable properties via pressure-mediated band gap opening. While such electronic properties are typically modeled assuming perfect crystallinity, disordering of the O sublattice under pressure is qualitatively known. Here a quantitative approach is thus employed, combining extended X-ray absorption fine-structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy with X-ray diffraction, to probe the extent of Sn-O bond anharmonicities in the high-pressure cubic (Pa\bar{3}) SnO2 - formed as a single phase and annealed by CO2 laser heating to 2648 ± 41â
K at 44.5â
GPa. This combinational study reveals and quantifies a large degree of disordering in the O sublattice, while the Sn lattice remains ordered. Moreover, this study describes implementation of direct laser heating of non-metallic samples by CO2 laser alongside EXAFS, and the high quality of data which may be achieved at high pressures in a diamond anvil cell when appropriate thermal annealing is applied.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Presión
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Difracción de Rayos X
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Compuestos de Estaño
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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En
Revista:
J Synchrotron Radiat
Asunto de la revista:
RADIOLOGIA
Año:
2019
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Article
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Estados Unidos