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AUTHOR
H. Jex
Elastic and quasielastic neutron scattering studies in KBr:KCN mixed crystals
Neutron scattering studies in (KBr)1–x(KCN)x mixed crystals are presented utilizing powder diffraction, single crystal diffraction and time-of-flight techniques. Forx>0.6 (KBr)1–x(KCN)x crystals exhibit ferroelastic and ferroelectric low-temperature phases. Crystals withx<0.6 undergo transitions into an orientational glass state. Here we present a detailed phase diagram including new results for x=0.85 and x=0.65. For the latter system a stable rhombohedral low-temperature phase has been detected where the orientational disorder of the plastic phase is only partly removed and quadrupolar relaxations between three body diagonals are still possible. From the powder diffraction experimen…
Mössbauer gamma-ray diffraction from the molecular crystal KCN
Abstract Mossbauer gamma-ray diffraction was applied to separate the elastic and inelastic scattering intensities from the (200), (400) and (600) Bragg reflections of KCN. The energy resolution of our experiment was 60 neV. The Debye-Waller factor extracted from the elastic data and the thermal diffuse inelastic data both increase towards phase transition, theoretically a logarithmic singularity was predicted.
A neutron diffraction study of the glass transition in (KBr)0.47(KCN)0.53
Abstract The molecular crystal (KBr) 0.47 (KCN) 0.53 has been investigated by elastic neutron diffraction at the transition from the paraelastic to the orientational glass state. The freezing temperature is characterized by the onset of a momentum transfer dependent broadening of the diffraction lines indicating the transition from a crystalline to an amorphous state.