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Pressure-induced structural phase transitions in materials and earth sciences
2008
Pressure is an important thermodynamic parameter since it allows an increase of matter density by reducing volume. The reduction of volume by applying high pressures leads to an overall decrease of interatomic and intermolecular distances that allows exploring in detail atomic and molecular interactions. Therefore, high-pressure research has improved our fundamental understanding of these interactions in solids, liquids and gasses. The study of the structure of matter under compression is a rapid developing field that is receiving increasing attention especially due to continuous experimental and theoretical developments. In this article, we give a brief description of the experimental and …
Raman Studies of Structural Phase Transitions in Perovskite Ferroelectric Sodium Niobate Solid Solutions
2008
Raman spectra are sensitive to interactions between structural units and, consequently, may reflect fine rearrangements of the units of cation sublattice occuring at compositional changes affecting the phase equlibrium and ferroelectric properties of the crystal. Obtaining Raman spectra show the information on disordering of structural units depending on composition of the cation sublattice in real Li x Na 1 − x Ta y Nb 1 − y O 3 ferroelectrics. On the basis of experimental studies shown, that not only the frequency but also intensity of some “rigid” bands may serve as the function of order parameter of phase transition in Landau's theory of the second order phase transition.