Study on pressure-induced isostructural phase transition and electrical transport properties of BiOBr.

ABSTRACT

In this work, we prepared a BiOBr powder sample by the coprecipitation method for in situ high-pressure AC impedance spectroscopy tests, in situ high-pressure Raman measurements and in situ high-pressure X-ray diffraction experiments to explore its structural properties and electrical transport processes under compression. Two pressure-driven isostructural phase transitions, T-T' and T'-T'' (T - tetragonal, T' - tetragonal 1 and T'' - tetragonal 2), were discovered at around 10.0 and 15.0 GPa, respectively. The pressure-induced changes in the crystal structure and electrical transport of BiOBr can provide a reference for explaining the mechanism of the isostructural phase transition of other similar compounds after compression.