Published March 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

The compressibility mechanism of Li3Na3In2F12 garnet

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Apartado 644, Bilbao, E-48080 (Spain)
  • 2. Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1350 Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • 3. Universite du Maine-Cristallogenese, F-72025 Le Mans cedex (France)

Description

The high pressure behaviour of Li3Na3In2F12 garnet (Ia3-bard, Z=8) is studied up to 9.2 GPa at room temperature in diamond anvil cells using x-ray diffraction. Its equation of state to 9.2 GPa and the pressure dependences of the structural parameters to 4.07 GPa are determined from synchrotron angle-dispersive powder and laboratory single-crystal data, respectively. No indication of any structural phase transition in this material has been found up to 9.2 GPa. The fitting of the Murnaghan equation of state yields B0 = 36.2(5) GPa, B' = 5.38(18), and V0 = 2051.76(0.69) A3. The compressibility mechanism of Li3Na3In2F12 is attributed to the substantial bending of the In-F-Li angles linking the InF6 octahedra and LiF4 tetrahedra. The most compressible polyhedral units are the NaF8 triangulated dodecahedra. These results are discussed in relation to previous high pressure photoluminescence measurements and compared with the high pressure behaviour of silicate garnets

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Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
18
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 2915-2924
ISSN
0953-8984
CODEN
JCOMEL