Published June 15, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Investigation on structural and thermal expansion properties of Al2ErGe2

  • 1. School of Science, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430073 (China)
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Materials and New Processing Technology, Ministry of Education Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004 (China)
  • 3. College of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning 530006 (China)

Description

The crystal structure of the compound Al2ErGe2 has been determined by X-ray powder diffraction technique and refined by using Rietveld method. The compound Al2ErGe2 crystallizes in a hexagonal Al2CaSi2-type structure (space group P3-barm1, a = 0.41781(9) nm, c = 0.66698(1) nm, z = 1). Lattice thermal expansion studies on the compound were carried out in the temperature range from 298 to 913 K. The variation of the unit cell parameters shows that the lattice parameters increase with the increase in temperature. The coefficients of average relative thermal expansion of the compound along various axes were presented

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2008.01.001

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.matchemphys.2008.01.001;
PII
S0254-0584(08)00004-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Materials Chemistry and Physics
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
2-3
Journal Page Range
p. 515-518
ISSN
0254-0584
CODEN
MCHPDR

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